Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-02-14

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bullet struck John Noonan, nine years old,
ipfictiug a fatal wound.
Burglars, Friday night, raided a
savings bank in Wyandotte, Mich, blew
and Is city bonds, on which payment has
been stopped.
| A woman one hundred years old was
lately convicted of assault by Pennsyl-
vania court 1t is hoped that she will
| learn to control her temper and become
eventually peaccabc and useful member
of society.
There is nothing man is less able to
resist, nothing that man has less power to
destroy, than those early impressions left
by pious mother, and protected by the
vague but lively charm of childhood
recollections; for child will twice doubt
the mind of his father before he will once
doubt the heart of his mother.
think love and reverence all arts
equally, only putting my own just above
the others; because in it recognize the
union and elimination of my own. To me
it seems as if when God conceived the
world, that was poetry; he formed it, and
that was scul pture; he colored it, and thai
was painting; he peopled it with living
beings. and that was the grand, divine
eternal drama Charlotte Cusllmas.
The Hawaiian Islands once had popu
lation of four hundred thousand, and are
capable of supporting two millions. The
number OF natives and half breeds is now
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diminishing 1t will not be many years
before the government must, in the nature
of things, pass into other hands. The
present government is monarchial in
form, but the ruler is elected by the
people. King kalakaua may be succeeded
by an American, or at his decease the
government may take on q republican
form. Many of its citizens would like to
have the kingdom transferred into a state
of the American republic. There are on
the Pacific coast many intelligent and
enterprising citizens who believe such a
result would be of advantage both to the
United States and to the islanders.
The work of preparing the war records
for publication, says Washington cores
pendent, has brought to light some
interesting dispatches from General Grant
upon the subjects OF the assignments TO
command in the Shenandoah valley after
the raid into Maryland andthe movements
against Washington in July, 1864. 1t has
heretofore been supposed that General
Grant first insisted upon General Sheridan
for the service. 1t now appears that he
suggested General Franklin in his first
despatch, and next General Meade. The
fur her interesting fact is brought out that
in case General Meade was so assigned
General Grant desired General Hancock
to be placed in comms nd of the army OIL
the Potomac. The dispatches also show
that General Grant had great confidence
in General Meade, and that he spoke oil
him in manner quite NJ Variance with
the later statements of General Badeau
in his military history.
New Orleans is about to erect a monu
ment 10 the memory of the remarkable
woman, who, by the simple name Of
Margaret was known to every man.
woman and child in the city, and whose
death last year was followed by a
wonderful demonstration of popular love
and regret. Margaret Gaffney. born in
Baltimore about 1920, was married at an
early age TO Francis Haughey, and the
young couple, for the benefit of his health,
went further south, where he soon after.
ward died His widow removed to New
Orleans, where she opened dairy for the
sisters of charity. In 1854 she established
a bakery on her own account, and from
that time forward, though she could
neither read nor write, and had scarcely
a single antecedent chance OF success,
became more and more prosperous and
after many years of the most active, sell
sacrificing and expensive benevolence
died, leaving fortune of 100000 to
various Catholic, Protestant and Hebrew
orphan asylums. 1t is said that children Of
her brother living in Baltimore are now
preparing to contest her will.
PRACTICAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
There is a disposition in the depart
ments to enforce the principles of the
civil service law Immediately without
waiting for it to go into effect, and ever
to apply it TO offices which do not come
within the scope of tho act. Secretary
Teller has just declined to remove an
officer in one of the territories whose
office does not come within the presen
operation of the civil service act Mr.
Teller said he well understood the spirit
of the law to be that officers were not te
be removed without cause; and although
the law did not apply to this person he
should apply the act throughout his
department from this time and not make
any removals for political reasons, bu,
only for cause. A case similar is pending
in the treasury department on an appeal
from the collector of customs at Chicago
whe O. for political reasons some impor-
tant local changes have been attempted 10
be made in the custom house. Folper
has declined 10 make the removals which
politicians requested.
A MONTREAL INDUSTRY.-The medical
schools of Montreal seem to be asvlums
for grave robbers, and the clumsy CITY
government does not object. The ''corpse
stealing inlustay'' is booming there this
winter, and neighboring villages have
been Mortified to see their graveyards
sacked aud the ghouls escape unpublished.
Two embryo debtors recently went to one
of the eastern townships in search of dead
men. and when they came back with a
corpse in trunk cody said that they had
a narrow escape, and nothing but absolute
necessity wonld induce them to repeat the
adventure" And these vile creatures do
not always steal The dead for dissection
Through country doctor who acts as 60
between they negotiate with relatives for
the return of the bodies. Two subjects"
who were stolen from the dead house at
Rigand recently have been surrendered
for 500, and others bave been returned
on similar terms. 1t is strange com
munity which submits to such things when
the culprits arc known and could be
brought TO justice, and they are cowardly
people who will offer premiums to ghouls.
1t is charged that some of these grave
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