Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-25

A little Ave year.old son of Marcus
Gibbs of Benson was drowned in O'Don.
nells pond on Monday. He was fishing
and is supposed to have lost his balance
and fallen in. His body was not recovered
until the next morning
Samuel Francis Smith D. D., the au-
thor of our national hymn, "My Country,
tits of Thee" now resides at the age of
"A, in Newton Center, Mass. His sigma
ture is in great demand among autograph
hunters.
A LYNcHING IN IowA.-Hardy,the Polk
city murderer. was taken out of jail at
Harlan, Iowa, July oath, by so masked
men and lynched. The mob came on
horses with rope, arms and sledses. They
tied the Tailor and made his wife surrender
the keys. While the murderer was hang.
ing they shot him, and afterward threw
him in the river. The mob disappeared
quietly.
Charles A, Wood, local manager of the
Bennington County Retornser, has been
arrested by United States Marshal General
Henry, for opening, June 81, letter
addressed to the Bennington Banner. He
waived examination before H. A. Harmon,
United States commissioner, and was
held in $500 bail for his appearance at
the October term of the United States dis.
trict court at Rutland. His father signed
his bail.
OvERwEIGHs THEM ALL.-Speaking
of the proposed ticket of Edmunds and
Lincoln, the Chicago Inter. Ocean says:
IF our Bob appears on the next presi.
dental ticket, his name will be at the
head Illinois does not play second fiddle
to Vermont" Perhaps not in acres or
population, but in statesmen she has
nobody who wouldn't be overweighed in
playing seventeenth fiddle to George +.
Edmunds. -BostOn Herald.
There was terrible accident at the
blast furnace in Geddes, N. Y. Monday.
Eight men lost their lives. They entered
the furnace to construct a new lining,
when the old lining fell upon them in
stantly. A hundred tons of brick and
mortar fell upon them. The victims were
married and had families. The following
are the names of the killed; Joseph Daw-
son, foreman; John Fogerty; Michae
Carol; Anthony Leydon; Frank Hefty;
John Wendell; David Regain and John
Barry. 1t is said that the manager Of the
furnace had warned the foreman that the
old walls were not in safe condition.
Gen. f. o. c. Ord, who died on Sunday,
was born in Cumberland, Md, on Octo.
Der 10, 1918, and he entered the artillery
service in 1886, after passing through the
military academy. From that time until
December, 1880, he was in active service.
During the war of the rebellion he rose to
the rank of brigader general in the
regular army and held commission as
brevet maj or general in the volunteer
service. Until toward the close of July,
1874, he served in the Mississippi valley,
having command of the left wing of Gen.
eral Grants army for some time and
the thirteenth corps during
the sege of Vicksburg and Jackson.
While in command at the action on the
Hatchie, on Oct. 5, 1862. he was severely
wounded. During the latter half of 1864
he had command of the eighteenth corps
before Richmond, and in September. 1864, |
he was wounded in the assault upon Fort |
Harrison. In January, 1865, he relieved
General Butler of the command of the
department of Virginia and North Caro-
lima and of the army of the James |
A fter the close of the war he commanded |
the departments of California, the Platte |
and Texas. In January, 1881, he was
placed on the retired list according to his
brevet rank.
Nor A LEGAL TENDER.-We have been
asked to state whether or no the trade
dollar was made legal tender by the gov
In bill which became a law
February y, 1873, it was provided that
1.-The silver coins of the United States
shall be a legal tender at their nominal !
value for any amount not exceeding five
dollars in any one payment" This pro-
cision included the trade dollar. But on
July %, 1876, congress passed a Joint res
olution providing that the trade dollar
should not thereafter be legal tender. |
Judge Poland gives it as his opinion. in a
recent communication, that the Bland |
silver bill of Disappointing that "all
silver dollars heretofore coined by the |
United States, of like weight and fineness,
shall be a legal TENDER" etc.-did not
extend the legal tender quality to the
rade dollar. The judge further says
These coins were issued by the govern.
nent in the exercise of its constitutional
power and prerogative to coin money!
IN their face they proclaimed this and
,ore all the insignia of sovereign authority.
10 refuse now TO recognize them as coin
If the realm, and treat them in the hands
# the people as so much uncoined bullion,
GEMS to me a gross and palpable fraud.
They should be placed on a par with other
egal dollars, by being declared legal
ender, or redeemed or recoined. In some
orm they should be made good to the
olders by the government, and l shall
heerfully and earnestly contribute to that
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