Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-10-10
Ronello G. White of East Wallinoforf


square; also q small Jaw bone filed will
other singular teeth. Some of them wer,
taken to New York, and all who saw
them say they never saw the like.
The Boston Transcript recalls The fac
that the two cent letter postage is buta stel
toward the object of Charles Sumner
repeated efforts for cheap postage. HI
made an important speech in June. 1870
in favor of one cent rate, uniform
throughout the country, and that speecl
is IAN arsenal of facts" for the advocat,
of cheap postage to day.
A government clerk has Just died il
Washington who was never "short" in hi.
accounts or in stocks either. Maj. T. T
Abbot was 81 when he died and had beer
clerk for over 40 years; he was an ole
bachelor, and only few days before biz
death gave the family that took care O
him house; and under his pillow was
found 1873 900 in government 8 per cents
besides money and securities elsewhere.
On steamer lately arriving from
abroad during the prevailing high seas {
traveller exclaimed to his very stylish, bu
just then pale and distressed looking
daughter: what. Grace you seasickr
Looking around at the rest of the com pany
hugging the rails, she faltered out, 'Y-y-
you don't s-s-suppose, papa. I'd be out o.
f f-fashion, do you!'-New York CONNER.
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The SOUTHERN RAILRoAD.-A Mon.
treal despatch to the New York EveminS
Post says; The Canadian Pacific railway
has virtually become the possessor of the
Southeastern road by resolution of the
directors, transferring the road into the
hands of the trustees of the bondholders
As the majority of the bonds are held by
the Pacific company, the latter is now
considered the owner of the road to al
intents and purposes.
There is no use of worrying for fear the
post Office department may show a deficit
on account of the reduction of letter post
age We are to have large surplus in
he treasury department and are querying
how to get rid of it. 1t would hurt
nobody, in fact it would benefit everybody
if few millions of that surplus were
taken to make up the postal deficit. The
money all bel ngs to The people and should
be put where it will do them the most
good.-Sprn.gfetd Union.
Nearly half of the time designated by
Mr.. Peabody for carrying out his plans
under his southern educational bequest
has expired, and yet the trustees at their
recent meeting in New York report that
The ignorance in the south is alarming
They passed resolution providing for a
memorial to congress urging an education
al appropriate for the south. Mississip-
pi and Florida have both failed to pay the
interest on the bonds held by the Peabody
fund; Kentucky has asked to be admitted
into the territory of the boards operation,
but whether the scruples of the Courier
Journal against foreign aid for educational
purposes have been conquered does not
appear.
THE Howe SCALE WORKS The Howe
Scale Company has been reorganized,
John B. Page becoming president in place
Of Colonel George A. Merrill. The present
directors are John B Page, George S.
S udweIl, William w. Reynolds, George
A. Merrill. John Prout. Henry G. Gleason
and Edward d Page E ID. Page is clerk
of the company. John w. Canton. Rock
wood Barrett and John A. Sheldon have
been constituted managers, who will carry
on the business of the company for the
pr esent. The managers l., Gently took pos
session of the works and placed w. r.
Page in immediate charge, under them
of the manufactures and sales John A
Sheldon will act as treasurer. The man.
ayers are backed by combination of our
leading business men, who give the com
pany sufficient financial strength to ensure
It's continued prosperity. The pay rolls
will at once be provided for and the bust
ness of the company will be carried on as
-RatLdnd Herald.
The trustees of the Brooklyn Bridge
have made a concession to the public and
replaced those troublesome grips with
patented article frem San Francisco. 1t
consists of pair of powerful brass lined
clamps worked bya lever. Superintendent
Martin says that this brass will wear out
in II week and much prefers the grip Of
Col Paine" which does not tend so much
to "strand the cable" But the trustees
are so intent upon disseminating knowI-
edge on the subject OF mechanics that they
are compelled TO force the grip of Col
PANE" to hold on for while Chicago
has also got good thing in grips, and as
it got such a hold of the cables the other
day that Is trains were stopped in that
city, it is not at all impossible that in due
lime the trustees will have the Chicago
grip bringing up short the Brooklyn bridge
cars. 1t will be capital experiment and
The trustees could hardly resist such n
CHINESE PEASANT LIFE.-A writer in
the London Times gives this asan example
of the condition OF the Chinese peasant
"a family consisting of eight persons
owns an acre and a half of land. The
land was bought by the grandfather of the
present head, and has never been subdi
vided since nor added to. He grows about
seventy bushels of rice and thirty five of
wheat, and some vegetable and cotton
be- ides, worth altogether in money about
$50. He has two nephews who work
outside and bring home something to he lp,
and in that way they get along, but they
are very poor. He and all his neighbors
wear native blue cloth, spun and woven
in the family by the women from cotton
grown by themselves. He never wore
foreign cotton. The coat he had on Ga
well worn affair." had been made two
years previously, and it would last two
years more. 1t served him at uigut as ii
coverlet as well as coat by day.
QUICK WoRK.-The Democrat of Car
rolton, Mo, says: ION Thursday Jim
Lawton invited fifty ighbors to see him
beat his own time of two years ago, when
his wife baked bread in eight and a quar-
ter minutes after the wheat was standing
in the field. AT 6 minutes and 0 seconds
after the Buckeye reaper stood at the
corner of the growing wheat Men were
stationed every few feet along the line of
grain to seize an armful as it fell from the |
reaper, and to rush with it to the thresh-
er close by. The mill was Just sixteen
rods distant At the drop of the hat the
mules sprang to work, and in minute and
a half about ii peck of threshed wheat was
in the sack and on horse that began a
race for the mill A minute and seventeen
seconds later the flour was delivered to
Mrs Lawton, and in minutes 65 seconds
rom the starting of the reaper the first