Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-16

"Lost Cause Pollard, one of the editors |
Of the Richmond Examiner during the war,
has been appointed to a clerkship in the New
York Custom House.
A good deal Of talk has been made about
the importation of Coolies into Texas. Later
advices from that far off land 60 to show that
the Cinnamon in question were cast iron, and
were designed to do duty in front of tea and
tobacco stores.
The actual payments for the army, less re-
payments in each year for eight years, from
1861 to 1868, both inclusive, were $3.24l,-
900 900. The largest amount was in 1865,
namely, 81 ,03l ,000, 600. In 1868 they were
1923 900 900.
Rev. DR.. Abram n. Littlejohn has been
elected Episcopal Bishop of Long Island, and
Rev. VIM. c. Doane, of Albany, Bishop of
Northern New York.
The family Of Commodore Meade, a broth
er of Gen. Meade, had him put in a lunatic
asylum. \ New York judge released him,
and showed his opinion of the transaction by
inviting the Commodore to his house.
The Oldest daughter of Thomas II. Benton
is a school teacher in San Francisco. Her
husband was a prominent lawyer, but he
went into the confederate army, lost all, and
died Q drunkard.
5000 pounds Of human hair are sold an
nually in New York, for $4,000 600. The
division of colors stands, white 500, blonde
1900, brown $500 and black $500 pounds.
\ Southern editor, who has accidentally
been reading his Bible, suggests the follow
ing from Jer. lii 10, as a good text for B.
II pc E,naral co,r,l- - I'll IL. la~s.l
and the irepans, and the bowls, and the cal
drons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons,
aud the cups that which was OF gold, in
gold, and that which was of silver, in silver
took the captain of the guard away"
1t is currently stated that Mr.. Caleb Cush-
ing, has gone to Spain, for Mr.. Seward, to
secure Cuba to the United States.
Some latter day genius announces that TO-
bacco retards waste, and that it facilitates
repair.
|. BY its action on the sympathetic gan,
glia. aiding digestion.
Ii. BY its action on the mcdulla, aiding
the circulation.
III. BY itssaction on the interstitial nerve
fbers, aiding the general assimilation Of pre-
pared material.
The director Of the mint states the gold
coinage OF the fiscal year ending June 80
lS6S. as SIS, ia 2j silver coin, Sl.736,-
100; nIckle-copper and bronz,, Sl,7l3.3Sj
total number OF pieces struck-45,4 = ,00t
being nickle-copper and hronze-49 1880
total value Of coinage, 81 HI 500 81.
Joseph A. Bradley. Surrat's counsel, whC
was expelled from the bar Of the crlmina.
court OF the district. gets no comfort in hi:
appeal to the supreme court. who tells hin
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ton in his case, and that its decision is be
yond review.
At a recent public meeting in Maine, tht
president stated that % per cent. Of the pop
ulati n attended church. and that the excuse
"f those who remained away were either thai
they could not afford TO rent a pew or t
dress well enough.
The longest artillery range on record il
England VIZ. 10. 800 yards, (-eventy yard
less than six miles,) was attained at Sheo
b~uryness last month. by Whitworth's 9-incl
muzzle-loader gun of fourteen tons, firing
shot of $50 pounds, with a charge OF d
pounds. 1t was claimed by Northern ar
t~illery officers in Charleston that the Swami
Angel threw shots from below Fort Sumte.
into the upper part Of the city, d distance o
seven miles
IN ldlt>l WAT III idiltllit HAS tpulc 10 Il
close with the defeat of the Conservative JEFF
Davis Of that part of the world. Gen Cor
KEoso. with a Liberal army of over four hun
dred men. armed with hrsach-loaders, ha
ieteatod OBALDIA and he body of Springfield
musketeers. in the battle Of Santiago
OBALDIA was taken in n wounded condition
beaten by his captors with the butt ends o
their muskets, and finally dragged 10 death
in the old iiomcric fashion. at the tail OF
horse.
l. O. on Q. THE Grand Lodge Of Goo.
Iempiars of the State OF Vermont will ho,'
their annual conv0cati0n at Montpelier Il
the second Tuesday in January, and all sub
hlrdInate lodges are entit.e Ell TO be represent
ci at that and all its other meetings durin.
the year by one delegate for every fifty o
fractional part of fifty members.
Large quantities Of counterfeit grccnbacN
have been put in circulation recently i
Southwest Missouri. On Wednesday last
q heavy operator was arrested in Kansas Cit
with SO, 5000 the false paper on his person
Lord Napier Of Nlagdala has departed 70
India, and viii arrive in Bombay IN consid
erably less than . year from the time h
quilted that CITY. Within that period. frol
a comparatively obscure officer, he has be
come a General of worldwide note.
Mexican bandits now strip travellers t
their shirts only. Heretofore they onl
stopped at the skin. 1t was after a passag
with Mexican plunderers that a lady travei
ling by stage arrived At Puebla in nothin
but a copy Of the n. y. Herald
Mark Twain, lecturins on the Sandwic
Islands, offered to show how the canibals Cd
their food. if some lady would hand him
baby. The lecture was not Illustrated.
Robert NJ Douglas, son Of Stephen
Douglas. and private secretary for Gov. Ilo
den. of North Carolina, Is TO have q luer;
tive appointment abroad.
0Soiourner Truth, now oighty-two years ole
Is lecturins to crowded houses in norther
New York.