Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

Ex-senator Eaton of Connecticut, who
is now member-elect to the next
house of representatives from the Hart.
ford district, is reported to have said
recently that "the democratic party took
out patent fifteen years ago for being
fools, and are now busiy engaged in
trying to get an extension of time" all Of
which is true, but they began further
back than he says.
Kentucky had in stock November LIST
nearly 60,000 900 gallons of whiskey, and
its value exceeded that Of the entire crop
of corn, wheat. oats and tobacco in the
state. Whiskey making is the one great
commercial industry of the state, and its
chief city of Louisville seems almost
entirely devoted to it. The product of
100000 gallons, of which more than
half was made in Louisville, while that of
the whole country was but 1O5,OO0,OOO.
The death roll of tho present Congress
to which the name of Congressman
Shackleford of Moth Carolina has lately
been added, has been unusually large
Before it first assembled, Mr.. NJ. p.
O'Connor of South Carolina died and
during the first session Messrs. Allen Of
Missouri, Hawk of Illinois, and Smith of
Alabama, the last of whom never occu-
pied his seat, as the contest for it was not
decided until after his demise, also died.
Senator Ben Hill of Georgia, and Mr..
Lowe of Alabama, followed shortly after,
and since the beginning of the present
Sc sion Mcssrs. Updegraff of Ohio; Orth
of Indianna, and now Mr.. Shackeford
have died.
In the Senate, on Saturday, Senator
Elmunds made strong speech in favor
of the postal telegraph. He said that if
nobody else would introduce bill for this
purpose he would at an early day, and he
desired to give notice to Wall street that
the telegraph would be built and owned
exclusively by the United States, and it
would have no connection whatever with
any of the present systems. He consid-
cred electricity to be us impor tant an
agency now for communication between
the people as the postboy and mail routes
nave been. He was opposed, however,
10 the purchase of telegraph lines owned
by stock iobbers at inflated prices. and if
anything was to be done he thought that
the postmaster general should be en-
powered to buy the material and build
lines as best he could.
Three weeks of the new year have
passed, and should it prove true, as now
seems probable. that nearly three hundred
passengers have sunk with the Cimbria,
the loss of human life by accident already
reaches more than a thousand souls.
Unless many more of her passengers shall
have been saved than have yet been
reported the Cimbria's loss will be the
most disastrous within the last twelve
years, except the wreck of the Atlantic,
off Nova Scotia on the first of April, 1873.
On that occasion SIG out of 93l persons on
board we're lost. Next came the loss of
the Vile du Havre, with 226 passengers,
by collision with the Loeb Eirn on the
2Sth of November of the same year. On
May II, 1875, the Schiller sunk on a reef
in the Scilly Isles with 200 passengers.
On January %, 1870, the City of Boston,
with 1911 persons on board, left Halifax
never again to be heard of, and near the
end of that year 100 persons went down
with the Cimbria off the coast of Ireland.
BY the wrecks of the Deutschland and the
Pommerania fifty lives on each were lost.