Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-02-13
Items of News.

WEATHER prophets say there will be forty
SHOWS this winter, according to the old
rule Add the day of the month of the first
snow, the day of the week and the day of the
moon together, and the amount will be the
number OF SHOWS for the winter.
This is a specimen of the question. in a
mental arithmetic OF the southern
Seven confederate soldiers captured twenty.
one Yankees and divided them equally be-
tween them How many did each have?
The importatio OF fire crackers is forbid
den by the new tariff bill. Mr. Fessenden in
serted the clause because the great fire at
Portland was caused by crackers
northern planter down South overheard
two of his hands talking. "Jim," said Sam.
/" what's the reason the major don't call me
mister: aud was the reason he calls my wife
the old woman and not MISUSE" | cant
tell replied jim pears to me Yankees
don' think much more of than our old
masters used to "
The negroes Of Monroe county, Mo-, held .
meeting at Christmas, for the purpose of es-
tablishing rates for their labor For first
class hands they fixed the price Of men at $50
per month. and women at S8-Sl.50 per day
for men and IS cents for women At Shreve-
port La, good hands get $50 per month and
board.
The police commissioners say there are
2I00 houses Of ill-fame, and 25 900 harlots
in New York city.
Last year Thad. Stevens moved the repeal
of the iron-clad test oath and Henry Winter
Davis always denounced it as unconstitu
tional.
The Vicksburg Herald says that the famous
Davis Bend cutoff has at length been made
The Mississippi River hes thus been shortened
eighteen miles. The shute is twenty five miles
below Vickshurg on the Mississippi side.
French work recently published, main
tains that every ten thousand years the waters
of the sea pass from one pole to the other {,
submerglng and overwhelming in their pass
age the earth and ali its inhabitants. Accor
ding to the author of this, NJ. Paul de Jouve-
nal, the laet of those deluges occurred $500
wears ago the next one is due in 5000 years
more.
STAINs.-Choroform removes stains made
| by paint varnishes, and OILS. Another very
effective fluid for the same purpose, is mix
'urA of six parts of strong alcohol, three parts
of liquor ammonia, and quarter part OF ben
zine
In Denmark one cannot cut down his own
treee without permit from Government.
The fine residence in Lebanon, owned and
| occupied by the widow of the late Prof. Had
dock of Dartmouth College, was destroyed by
fire last Thursday evening. Much of the fur
niture and personal property was saved.
AMERICAN ESTERPRIsE IN THE EAsT.-An
association of American merchants In New
York and China has undertaken the COLOMBIA
ton or settlement of grant made by the
Sultan of Borneo. This great isand-with
the exception of Australia the largest and
richest 10 the world-has never been devel-
oped by traders.
The Prussian Government has given
Bismark Els, 900
The New Jersey authorities don't relish
having a regular Sunday hegira of New York
rum drinkers into that state. and propose to
execute their state lave, which are as strin
gent as the New York excise law Where
will the prosecuted New Workers go next?
The number Of eimgrants that left Liver
pool Inst year was 100 1893. a slight ipcreas "
over the previous year. The returns for th'
year show that the Irish are emigrating j,
large mum bers 10 the west coast of Soutl
America and to the southern states of Nortl
America.
Barnum's Museum has lately been enriched
by the addition of four brook trout, raised q
W allingford, Ct. They measure from IA t.
Is inches in length, each, and they weigh to
gether l6 pou. de-.
The Lieutenant Governor. Secretary O
Sta.e and the Speaker Of the Assembly @
New York, are each less than thirty years Q
age
A memorial of $500 citizens of Virgini
was laid before the reconstruction committe
to-day, eskipg Congress to establish q provis
ionai government in that state.
The Albany Argus Gays that at one tim
the democrats Of the New York Legislatur
we're inclined to vote for Horace Greeley 70
senator. hut the small republican supper
given him prevented it.