Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-12-02
Items of News

Der, this year.
Coal is high and going higher wood will
follow.
Grain declined. at Chicago, at an average
Of a cent a day during November.
California has produced an apple seven
teen inches in circumference.
1t is only twenty-four hours staging from
the end of the Union Pacific to Salt Lake.
Brigham Young is said to he the third
largest depositor in the Bank of England.
Gen. Grant's private fortune is estimated
at $500 900.
The Cole-Hiscock trial is going on at Al
bany, n. Y.
Over ten thousand dollars were expended
in keeping alive the John Allen PRAYER meet
ings in New York, and now Water street is
worse than before.
Mr.. James Fisk, the Erie Director. who's
name appears so often in the reports of the
- Erie War" commenced in life on q dry
goods peddler's wagon in Vermont
A good chance for lumbermcn, there is a
county in Iowa that has only eighteen trees.
Gen. Grant is making a visit to the Bosto-
mans.
Vice-President Colfax and his bride talk
Of taking a trip to Europe.
\ Boston sculptor has been forced TO sus-
pend a bust of Anna Dickinson, because, as
he says, he could not get a block Of marble
of sufficient purity.
Gen. Mcclellan is to be appointed Engi-
neer for the construction of the New York
underground railroad. A good place for
him.
GINA boats and the revenue boats Of Mary
land, has been resumed, and in the first bat
tie one Yirginian was killed.
Red Cloud and several other leading Indian
chiefs have signed a treaty of peace with the
United States.
Gen. o. O. Howard has issued his order
providing for the discontinuance Of the Freed
mems Bureau after Jan. /, with the excep-
ton of the educational department and the
collection of money due soldiers.
The Doth Regiment of Infantry has been
ordered from Tennessee to Texas, where its
services are said to be badly needed.
1t costs the United States nearly fourteen
thousand dollars to educate every cadet A.
West Point, and it Is a good Investment at
that.
Some interesting experiments with heavy
guns have recently been made az Fortress
Monroe. The result was that no targets
could be found strong enough To resist the
hot from the l2-inch rifle or l5-inch smooth
bore guns.
The sensation story about hard words pass
ing between Gen. Howard and DIR. Boynton
is denied. The General and a son Of Dr..
Boynton accused each other of breaking the
ninth commandment.
The Catholic bishops are making an earn
est appeal TO the devout 70 raise $3.50, 900.
10 support the American college at Rome.
Only fifty per cent. of the children of Yer
mont attend school.
Commissioner Wells says that there is re-
tailed annually in this State six millions
seven. hundred eighty-six thousand and sixty
five dollars worth OF liquors.
\ land slide occurred near Westbrook.
Me on Sunday, covering forty acres of land.
1t completely filled up the channel of the
PassumpscOt river.
\ few days ago a body of 200 men, claim
ing 10 be militia, entered the town of Center
Point. Arkansas, and went through it,"
AANN A'it'toA AHtA IHRNNNNAASC - tCNf
three of the oldest and most respectable eiti-
zens of the place.
jeff Davis trial is to he postponed again
The distinguished " martyr" is in England,
advocating the exploration of the ruins about
Jerusalem.
Probate Judge Pugh, of Franklin county,
Ohio, has been bound over in the sum OF
$4,000, 10 appear before the L. ). Circuit
n..s - e. -
uralization papers.
An organized attempt at incendiarism was
frustrated last week, in New York. Eleven
buildings were fired in various parts of the
city, but no great damage was done
The average Democratic majority on the
whole electoral ticket in New York is 1908.
The total Democratic vote was 429, so, and
tbs total Republican vote 1854. The to-
tai vote of the State was $40, 151.
November 18th, :. Evacuation Day." was
celebrated in New York by a grand parade
Of all the military, and the fire department.
The Vermont Historical Society has ap-
pointed for orator at it's next annual meet
ing, Hon. Benjamin ii. Steele, of Derby, and
for substitute, Henry Clark, ESD, of Rut-
land.
\ man in Salisbury, n. C., last week bet
two gallons of tar that he could drink a
quart of brandy and walk a mile before it
would throw him" He won the bet and
lost his life.
\ writer on deliberations in food SAYS
there are 50 substitutes for coffee, and l29
for tea.
The astonishing spectacle was witnessed
in Troy, the other day, of a consultation OF
three homeopathic physicians with two of
the aliopathic school, at the bedside of a lady
who was supposed to be at the point of
death. The consultation resulted in q dead
lock, for the lady is recovering.
The best thing yet said about General But
ler's triumph is this, by his friend George
Alfred Townshend Butler has 'impu-
dence enough to return to Washington and
behave himself, but this is improbable"
Persons desiring to take the benefit of the
bankrupt act must have their application
filed before the lst of January, 1869. After
that date petitioners will be compelled to
show assets to the amount of so per cent of
their debts.
1t is said to be certain that Matt III. Car
penter will be the next U. S. Senator from
Wisconsin, vice Doolittle, who proposes to
mend his fortunes by the practice of the law.
Donnelly. defeated for the House of Rep
resentatives in Minnesota, is going to run
for Ex-Governor Ramsey's place in the Sem
ate. which becomes vacant next March,