Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-30

Malignant small po1 is prevailing in Mon
treal.
A man in Cincinnati cured his small pox
by drowning himself.
Fayette County, Kentucky, will soon be
distilling whiskey at the rate of twenty-five
gallons a day.
Some youthful sawbones, or their agents,
are robbing the Cleveland cemeteries.
Tn finest insane asylum in this country,
has just been built by the state of New York
at Peekskill.
A young Boston broker purchased New
York Central stock on Saturday, sold out on
Monday, and pocketed ST. 900 by the ope-
ration.
George Francis Train having left his Irish
bastile, is writing sensation letters for the
World.
Two Egyptian mail steamers lately collidcd
near Smyrna, and over two hundred passen-
gers were killed.
The dollar stores, at which anything worth
less than a dollar can be had at that price,
are becoming quite popular in the cities.
The soldiers of New Hampshire will hold
their fourth reunion at Concord, on the Sth
of January.
Vice President elect Colfax and wife, ate
their Christmas goose with Mr.. Bowles, OF
the Springfield Republican.
The Law School of Washington University V,
St. Louis, Mo, has admitted a lady as n stu
dent by the unanimous vote of the faculty.
Gov. Merrill, of Iowa, proclaims that the
word white has been struck from the
state constitution.
The elegant Episcopal church at Water
bury, Conn, was burned the day before
Christmas. Loss 500, 600; partially in
sured.
The Rev. DR.. Rogers, who kept the Epis.
copal diocese of Tennessee in hot water for
the last few months, has finally been received
into the Church OF Rome, and . assisted 90
one of the former parishioners to take the
veil.
The New Hampshire State Treasurer re
ceiyed a call from a gentleman, a few DAYS
since, who wished To obtain a million dol
lars to use early next morning. lie had es
capped from the insane asylum.
a night watchman in Maiden, Mass, wa
shot dead last week, lay parties who got away
without leaving any clue 70 their identity.
Florida is called the poor mans paradise
by Il correspondent. He says a $500 house
there, is as good rs q $500 one at the
North. No wood-pile, no hay-mow to pro
vide, and land fifty cents an acre
The Denver Pacific Railroad. it is stated
has been graded the entire distance, los
miles, from Denver To the connection with
the Union Pacific Railroad. Thu entire work
is paid for. The track, 1t is asserted, will
be laid carly in the spring.
A Washington correspondent of the Bos-
ton Post says the administrator of President
johnson has already closed its books 50 far
as appointments to office, which require CON
hrmation by the Senate, are concerned.
Pittsburg is excited over the ale -el dis
covery OF IL way to refine iron without pud-
ding. BY some simple process superior
malleAble iron is produced with little cost.
4 Paris paper announces that NJ. Makley
Holl, has been elected mayor of New York,
and that Gen. Costas has seized on the vii
Iage of Cheyenne.
Our English friends believe in the a
yos'eriOyi argument in education, and spank
Young ladies at school until they are eighteen
The treatment is said to produce the hap
piest results.
The President has pardoned another New
Yorker convicted of running an illicit still
The Chinese college at Naples, has beer
turned into a school to teach Asiatic Ian
guagcs, in order to facilitate closer relation.
between Italy and the East.
An English clergyman married his cook
and then preached a sermon defending his
course and reproving his female ~parishioner,
for tprpInn mn their noses ut tho lueEv eOn.
FOUNDER OF sauces.
A deluded hydropath In Portland, not be
lieving in the bow of promise, has investe,
all his property in an ark. He is going t.
take a COED supply of provisions and wal
the rain.
1t was attempted to construct the Howard
University building at Washington, of pa
tent brick, bat when the walls were nearl,
up they crumbled to pieces, doing consider
able injury.
1t is believed that all the law suits ant
contentious in and about the Erie controvers,
have been settled. 1t would be interestin,
to fad how much of the stockholders none,
it took to do it.
Senator Harlan protests against Chandle'
being called a drunkard, and claims tina
Zach never was that, and does not drink a
all now.
A sleigh load of passengers, while eros:
ing the Mississippi river on the ice at Prai
RE du Chicn, Wisconsin,, were precipitate
into the water by the breaking of the ice
but were all saved except a baby, whic
froze to death.
The wife of Captain Henry c. Dean, on
of the oldest residents of Oxford, Me.
aroused her husband a few nights since, say
ing that she heard some one knocking. III
arose, but could find no one, and on coming
back to the bed he found her lying dead.
A method of sewing boots and shoes wit
copper wire instead of the common thread
has been patented, the advantage being tina
at a very small increase in expense th
strength and durability of the work ar
much improved.
The Irish Literary Society of Memphis
have raised and sent to Henry A.. Wise S7O(
as a testimonial of their esteem for his ser
vices in the cause of civil and religious lib
erty.
It has been found that American watche
arc the only ones not thrown out of repai
bv the peculiar motion of the v~elocipede
hence they are coming to be the rage.
Ex-Secretary of War Cameron is reporte
as saying - Butler came a great deal neare
than many know, to being President of tn
United States to-day. Lincoln wanted But
Ter to run on the ticket with him for Vic
President-to hold the place on the tickle
subsequently given to Johnson.
Gen. Banks has authorized the statemen
that he is not a candidate for the speakershil
of the next House, but will sustain the nom
nation of Mr.. Dawes who is also supporte,
by the entire Massachusetts, delegation.