Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-09
Items of News

the Republican electors all concluded TO vote
for Grant and Colfax.
4 lady in New Haven. sent two bullets
after an impudent scamp who proposed to
escort her home.
Tho official returns say that the total ton
age Of Vermont vessels is 4641 tons.
Look out for counterfeit FIVE cent pieces.
1t is said they are actually of poorer metal
than the genuine.
4 great Christian Temperance Convention
was held in Boston. last week John B.
Cough, and other celebrities were present.
The Woman's Suffrage Association, OF
New Jersey. is in session at Vineland. Lucy
Stone and Rev. Antoinctte Brown are the
leading spirits
\ National Convention OF cattle commits
sioners to consult as to the best means to
prevent the spread of the cattle plague, is in
session at Springfield, II.
The soldiers Of Massachusetts, are making
preparations to 90 to the Inauguration at
Washington, in a body.
Gen. Grant visited the Wal,ham watch
factory last week, and dined with the elec-
tora! college OF Massachusetts,.
Perry Fuller, when appointed collector at
New Orleans, announced that he should con-
duct the office for the benefit Of the Demo-
cratic party. lie has kept his word for once.
1t is said that the natives of Petersburgh,
are not ashamed to turn an honest penny
by showing the scenes Of their final humilia-
tion = Yankee tourists, and almost rival
Niagara in the way Of relics, mementoes and
guide books.
The NJ .ssachusetts electors, beside voting
held z meeting OF the Mutual Admiration
Society. Considerable eloquence was wasted
on a very small audience.
Buckley has an Office in the Internal Reye-
nue. Bureau, but he has been SO long absent
from his desk, without the permission of his
superiors, that they rave great hopes that he
has run away.
The [. ). Treasurer, THINKS female clerks
the most capable in many branches, and
wants h eir pay increased.
4 Court of Inquiry, with Gen. George II.
Thomas as its president, IS in session 81
Washington, to investigate alleged frauds in
the ordnance department during the war.
The Army Register for 1865, Is out. Du-
ring the year - officers resigned, 50 have
died, : were dismissed, and : cashiered.
A grand reunion Of the Western Armies
is to come off at Chicago, the 18th. Grant,
Sherman. Thomas and other n0tables will be
there.
The T4aes says New YORK IS s5yeyued By
the Hall family; Oakley Hall, Tammanv
Hal and Alchohol.
\ lady d respectable anteceien,s being
detected the other day, in New York, in
stealing some lace, committed suicide by cut
ting her throat.
paymaster' c'efk in one of the vessels
AZ the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is reported to
have absconded with $4,000, obttined on .
cheque left in blank by the raymaster. tam
bling did It.
5000 boys axe annually clothed, TED and
sent to the v est for suitable employment, By
the Newsboy's Lodging House Association,
Of New York.
Commodore Lawrence kcarney. one Of The
most distinguished officers of our navy. has
recently died at his home in New Jersey
With the exception Of Admiral Stewart, be
was the oldest officer in the service.
1 Oakley EillI ha. been elected mayor o..
Ne" YORK. vice Hoffman promoted. o. OF
a t3,al vote of 46,0i4. Mr.. tonSlin had
2o,9tD, giving the Democratic candidate d.
U94 majority over the Republican competitor
Brigham Youns IS issuin. currency in
Utah, greatly resembling the national
greenback. There is said to he a great deal
OF It in circulation. and the Mormon presi-
dent finds his banking operations very rroc
ftable.
The HOuad Tab.e says that. = railroad de-
pots are constructed on the idea that there is
no place ike home. and it is best for people
to s-av there"
General Sheridan says he saw a herd OF
buniloes nincty-tiye miles ion-, twenty-five
miles wide, which must have contained three
hundred thousand buftaloes.
Some drunken fellows in Wcstches.er. :.
Y. actually buried one Of their number
alive, last Sunday. 1 person who observed
their operations came to the grave as soon as
the mourners had left. ana rescued the poor
fellow in the nick Of time.
The extent of work performed in the New
Hampshire stale prison, by those cOnvicts
employed in the manufacture OF household
furniture. may be Judged by the fact that
about one million five hundred thousand feet
Of lumber is required TO supply them a year
1t is intimated that the President Will
recommend to Congress the consolidation of
the Bureaus of Agriculture, Statistics and
Education into one department, TO be presi-
ded over by the Secretary Of the Interior.
In tic Court Of Special Sessions. at New
ark, y. j., on Tuesday. among the witnesses
sworn We're Rarnaccletto, Lagarosenation-
aughailaszmong, Angelo Saussayrmakenegky
and Angelo La~zarnsamengo.
One Of the manuscripts brought bv the
British from Abyssinia. is illustrated with a
picture OF the Israelites crossing the Red
Sea, armed with muskets.
Prime Minister Disraeli has sent in his
resignation to Queen Victoria. Tn late
elections show the people 10 not want his
services any longer.
The Cubans are investing heavily IN [.
S. securities. They have had a good deal of
experience in Spanish bonds.
Baron Rothschild had a plain funeral his
family tore their hair and rent their gar
ments after the manner Of the Patriarchs.
The Paris printers are on a strike, TO tie
great joy Of the authorities who can't be
abused TIL they 90 to work again.
The Government of Russia, not content to
assimilate or to destroy the Polish nationality
by forbidding the use of the Polish language
to Catholics, as we'll as Jews in that unhappy
country, has also published an ukase of the
Emperor enforcing the use of the Russian
language in the family. the school, and even
the churches Of the German and Lutheran
populations of the provinces of Courland,
Esthonia and Livonia.
A spiritual operator with power 10 bind
and unloose, was detected with 81 sharp knife
in his shoe and coil of rope round his body
at st. Louis.
row occurred in Memphis, on Thinks
| giving Day. at the race track. Gen. n. b.