Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-10-17

| CAVALR1 hEUNlON'-lu NO Hehuquafkel
of the cavalrymen will be at the Bardwe
House. Rutland, at their reunion on th
18th inst. Supper will be served at III
same hotel.
Ohio has given democratic majorit
four times in the past - years, exclusiv
} of the recent election. The averag
republican majority In the nine successful
years was 1000; the average democrats
majority about $4,000
THE STATE OF TRADER. G. Dun
Co, of the mercantile agency, report tina
the number of failures Tor the past seve
DAYS in the United States and Canada, wa
1877. as against 1888 last week. The list O
assignments in New York includes Simol
Mack & Co., clothing. r. McNulty {
Co ,cofee.and H. H. Moses & Co. shipping
and commission. Some increase is notel
in failures in the southern and eastern
states.
Pullman III the manufacturing suburb
of Chicago, has successfully tried move
system of sewerage. The town is Difficult
20 drain, lying on the prairie without rise
or fall and without streams. But sewers
were built, emptying into sunken tank
from which the sewerage was pumped
through twentv.inch main to farm
three miles away. The cost of the system
WAS $50 600, and the farm returns profit
of So, 500 a year or more than five pei
cent on the Investment.
A cable despatch from Dublin announces
the death of the earl of Mountcasbel, at
the age of ninety-two years. He was
owner of vast estates in Ireland and
England, among them being More Park.
near Limerick Ballyhatray. near Youghal
County Cork, and third in England
He leaves two sons, the Viscount Kill
worth, the ber to the tile, and Hon. C.
w. More. Smyth, ut one time the lord
lieutenant of Ireland. The Earl Mount
cashel was engaged to be married to the
daughter of Captain Kennedy of the tenth
Hussars, who is but nineteen years old
The wedding was to have taken place on
the 18th of the present month.
1t has been decided that Gen. Hancock
shall remain in command of the Atlantic
division, with headquarters at New York;
that Gen. Schofeld shall take command of
the division of the Missouri with head
quarters at Chicago, and that Gen. Pope
will succeed the last named, in command
OF the Pacific division at San Francisco
Brigadier Gen. Augur will succeed Mai
Gen Pope in command of the Missouri
division, with headquarters at Fort Lea
venworth Kan; Brig. Gen. r. s. Mack
enzie will succeed Gen. Anger in the
department of Texas. The department
of the south has been consolidated with
the department ofthe east, with Maj. Gen.
Hancock in command.
DROWNED OFF COLCHESTER POINT -
Henry Cole, aged about 10 years a resi-
dent at Mallet's Bay, was drowned off
Colchester point, Sunday afternoon. Cole
with George Prim, a young man of about
his own age, started to row from Colches-
ter Point to Grand Isle. At about 3
o'clock thew had reached point abou
five miles from their starting place and
three miles from Grand Isle. when IA
tremendous gale came up and their boat
was overturned The gale was one OF
the severest experienced on the lake for
many years. f r. Coon Of Burlington
anu George Sptulding of MalIet's BAY
went to the rescle, but were unable to
save Cole.
PETERsoN's MAGAzINE.-We have
before us the November number of this
we'll known favorite of the ladies' month
lies. 1t is splendid number, with 1,
perfect galaxy of steel engravings, colored
fashion pla,es, colored patterns for th,
Work table, tales, poetry, etc. Undoub
1dly, "PeieI son" is not onlv the best hu
he cheapest magazine of its kind, being
'u' 81 IA year to single subscribers. IT,
hubs II IS cheaper sIill, with great induce
nents 10 those getting up clubs. Sub
scribe 10 no magazine until YOU have
seen copy of Peterson " Specimen.
ne sent gratis, if written for. to persons
who wish to get up clubs. Address
Charles 5. Peterson, BOG Chestnut street, |
Pa.
George f. Barstow of San Francisco.
Who lett AN estate valued at $3.50, 600 gave
hese iDjunctions in his will: Having
Observed that ostentation and expensive
nnerals are injurious TO the people, aftei
describing money which poverty cannot
veil spare to vanity and pride; therefore
~ way OF example, for which | beg
pardon of the undertakers, let nv coffin be
plain redwood box, put together with
common nails or screws, without paint or \
'arnish, with plain iron handles. and all I
Use about the funeral 10 correspond with
his plainness. Let there be a cheap
hroud and no flowers. What is a dend
nan but Il handful of dust? Instead of
I met L. |
he grave upon some ordinary vehicle 10
everyday, use, since life is but Il journey
md the day of death the final rest
MUST THE ENGLISH SPARROW COZ
rot Elliott Cones, the well known orni,
biologist, in a communication TO the
Evening Star on the subiec,
'f the English sparrow. says that at the
of the American ornithooois,s'
lnlon, held recently in New York CITY,
special committee was appointed to
investigate the question of the ''eligibillty
Or ineligibility of the English sparrow
n America This committee" Prof.
Cones says. twill gather all the available
iata upon the subject, and recommends
ions OF the union to be submitted bv the
council to the union at its meeting, by the
'esult OF which measure will represent
he views and carry with it the authority
Of the entire body of American orntholo.
ysts. shall at once turn over to the
committee the whole mass of testimony.
both for and against the bird, which bias
accumulated on my hands during the
everal years that have boen interested
n the controversy