Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-14


John w. Cramton has been elect
county commissioner for Rutland county.
After ten years. trial of the town
system of schools, Middletown retains it
by vote of 90 to 20.
Early in May George Ticknor Curtis
will publish his long promised life of
President Buchanan.
Senator Sabin of Minnesota, Mr.. Win
dom's successor, was once clerk in the
treasury department.
1t seems to mo that all of the big men
have gone out of the Senate, with the
ever brilliant exception of Edmunds of
Vermont, who is, think, as big man as
ever sat in tho upper House of congress.
- Washington Cor. Cleveland Leader.
: An agents Journal says that tho true
book agent is always candid. Well, not
always, but sometimes. We never saw
hut one of them candied. He was smeared
with molasses and rolled in lot of hen
feathers, and then he was licked-fact.
Gov, Barstow of Vermont ordered flags
4 1T ltll lllitSI OH luc uly VI luG luuCldl VI
Gov. Stephens of Georgia. The south
can not feel that there is any lingering
hostility when such sympathy is expressed
in the very eagles nest of freedom and
patriotism on account of the loss of the
vice president of the Confederacy.-
Boston Times.
The Rhode Island Republicans will hold
convention next Thursday, for the
nomination of State ticket. The APP
preaching canvass promises to be made
more than usually interesting by the
presence in the field of Ex-Governor
Sprgue as candidate for chief magistrate
with the support of Democrats and
Independents, and possibly the prohobi.
tionists.
Gortschakof was good friend TO this
country throughout the civil war, ard this
fact should cause his memory to be
cherished for u long time by Americans
If the Russian government had listened to
the French proposition of a joint interview
ton with France and England to stop the
contest in 1862, American affairs might
not now be in the condition they are.
Gortschakotf defeated the scheme.
Less than sixty years ago there was not
in this country single Methodist school.
and of the Methodist clergymen in New
England only one was college graduate
Now they have 81 colleges, 1850 students,
and $l1, 100000 in college property.
Chief of these schools is the Boston Uni
versity, which already has the largest law
school in the country, but needs more
money from the churches for its work in
other departments.
Mr.. Dorman B. Eaton, of the civil
service commission, anticipates trouble
in carrying out the provisions requiring the
pro rata apportionment of government
employees among the different states, and
is not satisfied with the provisions for hold
ing examinations. lie also thinks that
more discretion should be left to the heads
of departments in the promotions, and
various other portions of the law are now
objects of his criticism.
The managers of the international
exhibition to be held in Louisville, KY,
next August, have received many encour-
ing evidences that their scheme meets
with the approval of large manufacturers.
1t is officially announced that already
more than two hundred applications for
space and steam power have been
received, so that it has been necessary to
enlarge the wings of the exhibition
building devoted to machinery.
Mr.. Daniel Woods the oldest resident
of indianapolis, Ind. died last week at the
age of 10G He was native of Nova
Scotia, n veteran of Waterloo, and one of
Napolcon's guards at st. Helena. lie
afterward served in Canada, and after
quitting tho service lived in ST. Adams,
Boston. New York and Philadelphia. He
was well scared up by pistols and sabres,
and made living during his last years by
sharpening knives and scissors at a stand
on the Court House square at indianapolis
The New York committee appointed to
solicit the S250,000 needed for the pedestal
for the colossal statue "Liberty Enlighten-
ing tho World' to stand on Bedloe's
island in New York harbor, appealed to
the whole country for contributions. The
great statue will be 148 feet high from the
pedestal which is to be $50 feet high of
itself. The figure will thus be three times
higher than the Colossus of Rhodes, one
of the seven wonders of the world 80 feet |
higher than the towers of the Brooklyn |
bridge, 10 feet higher than Trinity church |
spire; is paid for by 100000 friendly |
Frenchmen, and the government, having
granted the site, promises to maintain it |
in perpetuity, as Il lighthouse and beacon
Ii will be shipped to America this sum,
mer.
James Gil(illan, who has Just resigned
the position OF treasurer of the United
States, is too valuable man for the
government to lose. 1t is said that his
cash balanced every night before he went
home or he did not 60. He carried the
six combinations to the great vaults in
his head, and had them also secreted
somewhere in case anything happened to
him. To one person, the secretary of the
treasury, the place where these combina.
tions were sccreted was revealed. No one
person knew the comblnations-all of
them-and no one but himself and the
secretary knew where they could be found.
His office has been rigidly run on genuine
business principles. Once a secretary of
the treasury tried 10 introduce politics
there and wrote Il peremptory demand for
the appointment of a person. GilfiIlan
marched into the secretary's room and
said that he would not have the man
there, and that was the end of it. Said
he, II am the guardian of all this money,
and l propose 10 have nobody in that
office whom l can't control. That's all
I've got to say and that is all that was
said.
ORANGE COUNT SUPREME CoURr.-
Orange county Supreme Court began its
session March. 6, 1888, and finished its
hearings at :15 p. ~, "Wednesday, March
Z, having heard but cases besides the
habeas corpus petition of Francis M. Casin
which Judge Rowell had adjourned into