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

The oldest house in the United States is a
stone building in Guilford, Conn. 1t was
built in 1910, the stone having been carried
in hand-barrows from an adjoining ledge.
The cement with which the stone is put to-
gether is harder than the stone itself.
A disastrous fire occurred in Lynn, Mass,
Dec. 26. Several stores, the post Office and
a large block occupied by shoe dealers were
destroyed. Loss at least $500 900. From
600 to 1000 men are thrown out of employ
ment.
The Vicksburgh Times says City scrip
has gone far below par, the Corporation is
badly in debt, the gas is shut off from every
public lamp in the town, and a Judgment
against the city, which was compromised,
provided a certain amount be paid by a given
time, will put every dollars worth of public
property under the hammer, unless some
thing is speedily DONE"
Prussian military men are in trouble :;
France and Austria have supplied their arm
les with weapons superior t. the needle gun,
and if war should break out it looks as though
the fruits of Sadowa would be lost.
The Indianna Vigilance Committee have
issued a proclamation warning the friends of
the Renos that they are known and that if
murder or arson occurs they shall all expert
ence the fate of the New Albany victims.
1t is said that Frank Reno, one of the ex-
press robbers lynched the other day at New
Albany, Indiana, alone knew of the place
where was deposited ninety thousand dollars,
the proceeds Of one of his many robberies.
His sister visited him some days before he
was hanged, and tried to induce him to tell
where this hoard was concealed, but he re
fused, telling her that if he could not live to
enjoy it, no one else should. The secret died
with him.
Homer is supposed to have been the first
to notice the Grecian bend in the following
lines from the tenth book of the Had
"Lo, here the wretched Agamemnon stands
The unhappy general of the Greci0n bands,
Whom JoNe DEGREES with daily cares to 6ead."
A recent statement of the agricultural
resources of Ohio places the number of sheep
in the State at $50, 900, against 6 1906, 796
in 1865 the wool crop of 1868 at %, 900 ,000
pounds number of cattle at 1,4Sl ,2l6 :;
number of hogs 2, 100 600.
Eight thousand sheep persisted in a snow
storm In southeastern France, recently, caus-
ing their owner a loss of $25 900.
The father of kamehameha, King of the
Sandwich islands. has given up eating baked
puppies. He is dead.
Mexico is tolerably quiet, while in Panama
they haven't had a revolution for nearly two
weeks.
Gen. Thomas, modest as he is brave, refuses
to have his statue placed with others around
the base of the Lincoln monument.
The following are the returns of sales Of
the daily newspapers in Chicago for the six
r months ending Sept. 80, 1868 Tribune.
SOL, 4S6 Times, SOL ,55l Journal. SAB,
557 republican, S42,556; Post, $50, go !;
STATS Zeifung (German) S3l ,406.
English voters undergo more peril than
English soldiers. The casualties during the
recent elections were greater than in the
whole Abyssinian campaign.
The Patriarch of Constantinople refuses
to assent to the Pope's invita- ton to send
representatives to the ecumenical council
next year.
BY order of the President Major Gen. O.
O. Howard is to he mustered out on the LIST
Of January. lie is the last Of the volunteer
officers of the war now in the service. This
does not affect his grade Of Brig. Gen. in the
Regular Army.
A gentleman in Nashua, y. H., recently
died leaving a viii depriving his daughter OF
all interest in a policy of insurance on his
life which he had attained : for the benefit
IF his wife and children" His executor
collected the insurance, amounting to 81 100,
and refused to pay the daughter any portion
Of that sum Ihereupon she sued him and
the Court has Just given a decision in her
favor, holding that an Insurance policy cannot
he changed by a Will.
King Charles Nv. of Sweden has recently
refused to sign a death warrant against a
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poisoning. His Majesty declared, at the
same time. that FIR the future no capital
execution should take place in his kingdom.
and that if the death penalty were not abol-
ishcd by law he desired it to cease in fact.
To test Kerosene oil take 4 common quart
bowl; fiji it one third full Of boiling water :;
now add cold water. a little at a time. until
a thermometer placed in it indicates a tenn
p~erature Of 40 degrees Fahrenheit \
tablespoonful of the oil to be tested may he
turned into the water and stirred about with
the thermometer. 1t viii float on top, and
it NAV be touched with a lighted match or
bit of paper. If it ignitcs or takes fire the
oil is dangerous, and the seller can be prose
cuted under the United States laws.
The late " Baron James,, was the young
est son OF Meyer Rothschild. lie had four
brothers, all OF whom he survived. The five
brothers ItHldIhcu tueSthcl IA "uiueHo II
obedience to their fathers dying request.
The Willingness of European Governments
to plunge recklessly into debt was the source
of their immense wealth. Their business
was a safe one, for they at first merely ne
gotiated loans =" as our Jay Cooke did. Their
profits from this source since the battle OF
Waterloo have been enormous. They began
with the petty German Courts, and from
these reached the Courts of ST. Petersburgh,
Vienna. Paris, and Naples.
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