Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-12-19

Tunbridge is to have an educational
meeting the 2lst and 22nd, under the
auspices of Justus Dart, state superin-
tendent of education.
Receiver Hendee of the broken Vermont
national bank of St. Adams has been
ordered by Comptroller Knox TO prepare
for dividend of twelve and enc half per
cent to the depositors of the bank.
Augustus Daniels Of Greensboro had his
hand SO maugled by a circular saw on
Saturday as to require amputation. On
Sunday little son of Charles Dian cut
off portion of his hand on a straw cutter,
and last week Mrs. T. c. Batchelder
slipped on the ice and broke her arm.
Dyer Townsend of Wallingford is o.
years old, and is hale and hearty. For Sc
years he has kept a flock of merino sheep.
In 1927 he purchased 10 Of this breed of
Frederick Button of Clarendon, who bought
them in Connecticut. Mr.. Townsend dis.
posed of the last of his flock Il few months
ago.
Temperance seems to be making sub.
stantal progress in South Carolina. The
state law prohibits the sale of liquor
outside incorporated towns, and provides
for local option within them. Nineteen
of the towns have just voted upon the
question of license, and of them all but
six gave good prohibition majorilies.
Senator Beck of Kentucky occupied the
attention of the senate on Wednesday,
discussing the question .of the sinking
fund. He claims that the country has
already paid some S700,00O,00o of its
debt more than is required, and makes
this the basis of his plan for Immediately
reducing taxation TO the bare necessities
of the government and interest on tue
public debt
"WoN'T You TAKE A ?-Bishop
Bowman, at a great temperance meeting
in England in 1878, closed his address
with the following anecdote: "a farmer
who had several sons, promised fine eldest
of them if he would refrain from strong
drink during the harvest, he would make
him present of sheep, Then said
the younger son, if do the same may
have a sheepp' Yes, you may said the
farmer, And ~ said another. Yes,
said the father. Then said the youngest
son. who was quite youth, May | have
a sheep, too. father, if do the same?'
Yes, my son. was the reply. And,
father said the youth. won't you take a
sheep, too?' The father was startled, but
after thinking Il while, said, Yes my son,
will"
The smuggling Of Chinese coolies into
San Francisco by the issue of false certif
Gates at Canton has naturally made the
composition of the Chinese customs de-
partment a matter of some interest,
Charles Seymour, cur consul at Canton,
says that the maritime customs depart
ment is conducted throughout the Chinese
empire by salaried foreigners, TT the head
of whom is Sir Robert Hart, with II salary
as large as the president of the United
States. The commissioners and their
assistants are also foreigners, the commits
sioner at Canton being n New Yorker and
Yale graduate, while one of his assistants
was born In Massachusetts and went to
Williams college, and the other is a
Partisan.
DANGERS OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHT
After the experience in Fifth Avenue
recently there is no necessity for further
expert testimony concerning the danger
from electric-lighting wires. A runaway
in the avenue broke down one of the
electric lamp poles and traied the wire
upon the pavement. A passing horse
stepped upon the wire; there was a flash
of purple light, report like Il pistol-shot,
all the lights on the avenue went out, and
the horse fell dead A moment later another
horse stepped upon the wire and dropped
dead like the first. The avenue was inn
mediately closed TO travellers of all kinds.
OF course if person had stepped upon
the wire he would have shared the fate Of
the horses. 1t was stormy night and
there were few people upon the avenue,
or the consequences might have been
much more serious. A wire which kills
instantly every person who II eads upon
it would be deadly thing for a crowd ia
surge over. Clearly the most safe place
for these wires is under ground, and the
sooner they are put there the better.-M
Y. Evening Post.
Young RUFFIANs.-An outrageous
affair occurred in this town whereby a
poor, sickly, half-witted orphan, named
Foss, was most inhumanlv treated. Five
boys, Thomas Hines, Henry Belopdeau
two Blanchard boys aud one other
several Of them men grown, look the
poor boy, plunged him into trough Of
cold water, then after he was thoroughly
oh cd l,o fol tn n 1puarnl 4,
the water by rope, and thence to Il barn
where the rope was thrown over beam
and Strengthened until he was threatened
with strangulation, while he was made tc
believe that he was to be hung until dead
/ AS if these cruelties were not enough he
was taken to the house and one. half hi.
head was shaved. Complaint was entered
to the states attorney and the boys were
arrested and taken before Justice Sargent
and after three days trial the rascal&
were fined Sc each and costs. There is 8
strong feeling in this town that The
outrage demands much more severe
punishment, and there is much indignation
at the result.-Dcr6Y Cor Barton Monitor
1t is difficult to understand exactly wha
are the intentions Of the French cabine
on the Tonquin question. Weeks ago /
gave out that orders had been issued t,
attack Bac.Ninh and Sontay. Tho attacl
was not made, however. Thon it was
SAID that the order had been given I,
seize those two places on December ). h
But that date passed without any military
movement. Now the cabinet has received
a vote OF confidence in the chambers, an,
it is said TO have proposed renewal o
negotiations with the Chinese officials
Apparently the government hesitates t,
take a step beyond which peace may b
impossible. But it is difficult TO see how
Il war is to be avoided without ono side u
the other receding from the position it ha
taken. 1t will be strange if the Mandalins
who were ready to fight with Russia owe
the province of Sill, back down before
less dangerous foe.
Evangelinus Apos, OXIDES Sophoales, th
venerable university professor of Greek il
Harvard college, died on Monday. Protcs
sor Sophocles was born in 1907 i
Trangarada, 10 miles southeast Of Moan
Pelion, Greece, and for several wear
i nsi1ed in tho convent IF Mnunt Sim, ~