Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-01-01
Che Nous Wleauer.

Contributions to the Hungarian Fund are
coming in, aud the following sums have
been received Horace Greedy $lO0O. ].
N. Genin $IO00, Professor Anderson $1,000
MIR. Smead of Cincinnati $1,000, E. M. Pat
teison, of New Brunswick 100 1t has been
suggested that Kossuth should issue certif.
Gates emitting the holders to one dollar.
with interest from date, upon the achieve
ment OF Hungarian independence, and re-
deemabIe on presentation at the National
Bank Of the republc.:-BostOn Times.
FRANKING PRIvLEGE.-When the penny
postage system was adopted in England.
the franking privilege was wholly abolished,
so that the queen herself has no right now
TO frank her letters. In this country such
equality" is not permitted.
SECESSION AND ANNExATIoN.-A citizen
of Licking county, Ohio, lately had two
daughters elope from his house il one day.
One went oft with her clover, and while the
father pursued her, the other went also.
Both succeeded in getting married.
MAN FROZEN TO DEATH.-We learn that
an unknown Irishman was found, dead in
the road near the south depot in Quincy,
yesterday morning, having evidently perish
ed from the extreme cold of the previous
night. Transcript
The name ofthe Post Office at "corners,"
Windsor county, w., has been changed to
"Ascutneyvlle."
During Father Mathews stay in America
he visited twenty-five States, advocated tenn
perance in three hundred towns and cities,
travelled thirty-seven thousand miles, and
administered the pledge to six thousand per-
sons.
A Fox lately entered house in England,
and, seizing an infant which lay asleep in
its cradle, dragged it by the throat to the
fields. When pursued, it dropped its unusual
prey, and made off, but the child was picked
up quite dead.
GREAT RAILROAD ENGINEERrNG.-On
the line of railroad now building from
Konigaburg to the Lake of Constance,
over the Alps, there are I3 tunnuels, and 25
valducts $1,000 laborers and 1000 horses
are continually employed on it
On Sunday last most destructive fire
occurred at Raleigh, N. c. by which some
20 or 30 buildings, including the telegraph
office, were consumed. The flames were ar
rested by blowing up several adjoining
houses
A CURIosITY.-Mr. Thomas Smith Jr.,
of Jamaica, l.. |. owns COW which gave
birth few days since to calf without eyes,
or anything resembling an organ of vision.
The calf the present time, is some 9 days
old, and is doing we'll
We notice the death of Charles Woodland
ESQ.,, one of the oldest merchants in Phil
adelphia.
A movement is making simultaneously
by the friends of freedom in Georgia, Ala
bama, and South Carolina, to prevent the
introduction of slaves into those States for
the purpose Of sale.
~ 1t always gives us pleasure to notice
any article that confers real benefit on the
community, and it is with confidence we
heartily commend Ayers Cherry Pectoral
to our readers as possessing extraordinary
virtues for the cure of diseases incident TO
the Throat and Lungs, This may account
for our frequent reference TO this article
WEIGH we feel fully justified in making
known to the publicly Y. Tribune.
RUMoRED CUBA ExPEDITIoN.-A cores.
pondent from Washington says another Sc,
cret Cuba Expedition is being arranged,
with million of dollars contributed already
and the chief agents are now in New York,
Philadelphia, and Washington, working si'
lently and subterraneously.
EXPENSIVE cost of the prosecu-
tons to the U.States,in the Chrstiana riots
up to the time of Hanaways acquittal, ex-
ceeds the sum of $40 900. 1t costs trihe
to vindicate the law.
Forefathers Day" was celebrated all
over the land, where there is any consider
able infusion Of Yankee stock. The New
England Society of New York was address
sed by Hon. Geo. S. Hlllard of Boston, az
ter which they sat down to a sumptuous
dinner at the Astor House.
The telegraph suit so long pending be-
tween Messrs. Morse and Balm has at length
been brought to final settlement by the
latter disposing to Morse his entire right for
the sum of $4,000, to be paid in stock of
the Morse Co.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KossUTH FUND.
A purse containing $1,000 from the Wing
Central Committee in New York.
From farmer Douglass, of Long Island,
$1,000.
From the workmen of Hoe g. Co. Press
Mandatory, $40.
From the Watchmakers, 1886
From Stewards clerks, 1908 in gold dol
lars
Smaller contributions are arriving rapid
w. We do not learn the present amount Of
the fund.- but it must exceed $50, 900.
AN ANCIENT WEAPoN.-The sabre worn
by Count Pulzsky,at the Kossuth Bar Festi-
val OIL Friday evening last, was made in the
year 1895. 1t originally belonged to Sultan
Mahmoud. was once owned by Napoleon,
and finally passed into the possession of
the family of Count Pulzsky. The Blade.
which is of formidable dimensions, and OF
the finest temper, bears the date of its man
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