Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-12-15
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Howard A. Cleaveland, was arrested III DoStoh,
on Saturday, Dec. s, for numbering an old man
named Warren George, aged SO years, of Ban
gor, Maine, on the 18th of November last. When
arrested cleveland was found in bed with his
own sister Director Delmar, of the Statisti-
cal Bureau of the Treasury Department, claims
that he has taken census of the entire repub-
lie, and that the population is 36,743, l96, of
whom 1856, 371 are of African descent. Prob
ably this is not far from correct, and in 1870
our population will exceed 40, 000, O00.-While
Gen. Grant was at Gov Burnside's house recent
ly, at the windows bowling his Acknowledgements
to the people who focked to pay their re-
spects to him, several in the crowd called for
speech "Just two words, Gen. said an i'm
FORTUNATE individual, to which the Gen. replied
thus, 'No, sir 20 He might have complied with
the request by saying, "yes, sir. Mrs Sam
uel Colt is building church in Hartford, Conn.,,
as A memorial to her late husband and deceased
children, to be the handsomest in Conn.,, and
called the church of 'The Good Shepard -
Gen. Cole has been acquitted-the jury taking
the ground that though he was sane moment
before and moment after the act Of killing His
cock, he was probably insane at the moment he
committed the act. We accept the verdict, but
the reasons are too subtle for us.--The House
of Representatives have passed bill transferring
the Indian Bureau to the War Department, and
the Senate will probably concur.-In Louisiana
a week or two since, a little girl was seized and
CARED off by an alligator, and gallant little
colored lad, IA years of age, who rushed to the
rescue, was seized by another of these huge crea-
lures and devoured. Senator Sumner has in-
truduced bill to provide for the resumption of
specie payment Oh the 4th Of July next.-S.
NJ Andrews, the murderer of Holmes, has been
convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to 20
years Imprisonment. Kings mills, Poultney,
VT, were destroyed by fire on tn night of the 9Th
loss $14 ,000.-A man named Damon, liv-
ing in Norway, Maine, took a skate with the
boys OH his S5th birthday. Cleveland
the noted missionary of Boston-complains of
the Boston Journal because it speaks of his tot
tering steps upon the occasion of his paying his
respects to Gen. Grant at the st. James. His
age is 90, we think. He put into Gen.
Grants hands the following note ''To GEN. U.
S. GRANT: My dear and honored sir Happy
he who hath the God of Jacob for his help-whose
hope is in the Lord his God' That such dirine
help may continue to you, in the future as in
the past, is the fervent prayer of your aged
friend, Charles Cleveland Gen. Butler is
preparing speech upon the financial question,
which he will soon deliver in Congress.
land, the murderer of George, in Maine, spoken
of above, was bounty-jumper during the war.
The ''Ocean. View hotel, at Rye Beach, N.
H., was blown down, on the night of the 7th
inst This house was four stories in hight, and
and one hundred feet squarc.-Silas Tyler, jr.
city alderman of Lowell, Mass, was found
dead in his room on the morning of the 9Th
inst--The scene at Warsaw, Kentucky, where
the rescued bodies from the wrecked steamers
nj tod States md Ama,,ino fal bon fnr
q few days after the catastrophe, indiscrbable. |
Edmunds is one of the committee to
nominate for the reorganization of the Senate
committees -There is SO millions of coin now
in the u, s. Treasury.--Nlelville Brown, a
brakeman, fell between two cars of a freight |
train, at Westboro, Wednesday last, and was
instantly killed. Horace Greeley will he of
fered a seat in Gen, Grants Cabinet, and will
decline-it is said.-Thc lumber trade of Port |
land, Me-, is considenble-the amount received |
and sold there in 1868 being over 1916, 000, 900 |
feet.--A new state capitol is to be erected at
Albany, N. Y, at an estimated cost Of 3d. 00,-
QQ0;.Rossni-the most yigafSqst ch2hrg gienEf
strolling musicians, such as sometimes visit our
new British Parliament opened |
Dec. 10th.-Helen Western, the actress, died |
Caleb Cushing has gone abroad with full author
ity from the State Department to purchase Cuba
all parts of the country from Quebec
to New Orleans we have adyices of exceeding
ly cold weather.--Remembe that YOU car get
anything in the line of Job-Printing, from fash
ionabe wedding-card to a big poster at the
Job-otfice. A. Pollard, author
of the "Lost Cause" has been appointed to
clerkship in the N. Y. custom-house. Mrs. 4.
L. Davenport was robbed of 5000 in Portland,
last week.-Mrs.. Gen Taylor was seen by out
siders only once during her residence in the
White House guest accidentally ''stumbled
on to her." in n back room, quietly sitting in
the chimney corner smoking a pipe There
has been severe fighting in Cadiz, Spain, and
the instruction there is said to be melted by the
late Queen.--0n Thursday eve. Bishop Simp-
son will lecture in Boston upon the "Cresccnt
and the Cross. ''-The Right Hon. Mr.. Denni-
son has been elected Speaker of the House of
Commons.---According to letter from Garlic
ton in the 30 ston Journal, the Chinese in Cali
fornia are the best and most faithful of servants
but are very shabbily treated especially by
the Irish.--Clothe the little girls warmly
rs warmly as you do your boys in'the winter. -
Gen. Meade has been ordered to report at Wash
ngton on public business.--Gen. Grant has
gone to Chicago to attend reunion of officers
The jewelry store of c. r. Waterbury, at Sara
oga, was robbed of $4,000 on Thursday night
scoundrels who murdered the In
lian chief at Dunlap last week have been arrest
,d,-A great fire occurred at Greenwich on
he 18th. Loss $780, 00.-Lewis Gaylord
Clark is not expected to survive injuries receiv-
d by fall at his residence in New Jersey, on
Wednesday last. --IIon. VIM Nj. Rodman, one
If the most prominent men of Providence, r. l.,
vas found dead in his bed on the 18th with an
'mpty laudunum vial by his side-Ex-Presi-
lent Pierce was so much affected by the news of
he loss of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hutchins-lost in
he fearful collision of the United States and
AMERICA on the Ohio--that he is again prostrat-
d by Illness He had been invited to accompa-
~ them and for a time thought of doing So 1
The city letter carriers of Washington now wear
uniform made of gray West Point cloth and
ap Of the navy pattern. Gable dispatches say
hat troubles are increasing in Spain that the
turks have achieved great success over the
Iretan and that the Cuban insurrectionist mean
lothing less than independence counsel
4 a boy convicted Of mansaughter for shooting
lis father in Manhaska Co., Ia., moved for a {
lew trial which was granted, the circumstances
sere such that the sympathy is for the boy
IN Thursday afternoon last the spacious house
nd barns Of s. Williams, of Nashua, N II. was
ct on fire by two boys and entirely consumed.
On Saturday night, the 9th inst, the dwell ,
ing house of Mr.. s. NJ. Hubby, of Cleveland o..
Eas completely destroyed by gas explosion. {
he explosion was of course terrific. The in
mates Of the house, six in number, all escaped.
he house was valued at $4,000. --%Another
reat fire occurred in Rutland on Saturday last.
he Town Hall and several other buildings were
urned Incendiaries seem determined to de- +,