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

Items of News
The Grand Lodge Of Vermont arc to hold
District Meetings the present month.
1t costs Vermont half a million a year to
educate Its fifty thousand children.
Burns, a Sing Sing prisoner. tried for
numbering a fellow convict last spring has
been acquitted.
Three negroes have been sentenced 10
death in Maryland for piracy and murder.
George Peabody. the American philanthro-
pist. has made another donation OF one hum
dred thousand pounds sterling to me poor Of
London.
1t is said that an appropriation will be
asked of Congress to erect a monument to
Iuaddeus Stevens.
The property of Arizona has increased
one third in the past year
\ new London evening paper Is printed
~ Two presses, capable OF producing o0,0o0
copies an hour.
An English Yacht Is coming over next
summer after the cup the ADierica won in
1851.
The Baron Rothschild who has lately died,
left a fortune Of only 500 600 600.
The Vanderbilt ticket for directors of the
y. Y. Central has been elected without OPP
position.
Two eagles got 50 engaged il a tight a few
days ago IN Virginia, that a gentleman
caught them both in his hands.
At the steamboat collision "a the Ohio.
Ole Bull played himself ashore on his best
- C~remona."
The temporary bridge over the Missouri
at Omaha, has been carried away by co 1t
viii be replaced immediately.
The Rev. Mr.. Nasty intimates that Presi-
dent Johnson would he an acceptable candi-
date for the Spanish throne, because he has
all his life been putting the Bourbon down
JEFF. Davis vac once recognized hy a
drunken private. and compelled 70 ~acsrawl-
edge his name, - because, said the soldier,
d" you look 50 much Ike . confederate pos
tage stamp
a Y Indian philosopher predicts another
earthquake for California this month.
A Philadelphia printer got 3. insane and
cut his mother throat a. she lay in her bed.
In Missouri Carl Eugleman cut the throat
Of his divorced wife. The :. boys " put him
where he cant plead d" insanity
An Irishman in Charlestown. Mass. cut
off the head of his companion because he
feared the latter would testify against him
in a petty suit, soon to come of.
Warren George Of Orrington. Maine, was
missing and a search resulted in finding his
body in his own cellar. 1t transpires that
he was murdered by a Young man and his
mother, who lived with George.
Rufus Anderson was hung in Nevada, Oct.
30. for the murder Of n. 3. Slocum, for
merly Of Burlington.
An enterpri>ing Californian lately made
his appearance at Tarrytown, \. T., where
he married two women and offered himself
to a third, all within a week.
A son Of Charles Dickens has gone into
hopeless bankruptcy, by a disastrous turn OF
affairs in his business Of paper making. He
dragged down with him his old father-in-law
while his own father is not affected a f~arthins.
The Emperor of Austria says he must have
peace. and has therefore increased his army
to over a million of men.
The King Of Siam and most Of his court
caught the Jungle fever while looking at the
eclipse. Many of the nobility have died
and the king is expected to follow them.
An Oregon paper Claims that the Shoshone
rams sur EtSS -NldSiId Ill uCl1Hl- eIbli1lilN
and in fact everything except mere volume OF
water.
The Siamese twins have finally sailed for
Europe. TO try the long talked of solution
Of continuity"
The cloud by day and fire by night are al
most reproduced in Egypt. y railway runs
along the path of the IsraeliteS its cars are
marked Worcester, Mass.
Leading Hebrews in this country are tax
) ing ground in favor Of changing the jewish
day of rest from Saturday TO Sunday.
Silkworms are an important item in the
, products of California. They are said TO be
the best in the world.
\ we'll shaped lens has been found among
the ruins Of Nineveh, and it Is said Nero
used a glass TO see the combats of the gladi-
atOrs.
The Ironsides, which bore so prominent a
part in the actions in Charleston harbor. has
been successfully raised. She is now owned
by private parties.
James Fisk has sued the Tribune for libel
| IN saying that he had run away with Erie
money also the Springfield Republican for
writing a biographical sketch of him.
COMMISSIONS Rollins won't serve after the
Gnu oi tuis y0a', IL Is appointed president
Of the National Life Insurance Company.
Marysyille, once the finest town in Califor-
MIA. is nearly ruined. Hydraulic mining fills
the rivers with sand, which has covered the
surrounding country and made it a desert.
Next in number to the financial bills in
Congress, come the propositions to amend
the constitution. All sorts-good, bad and
indiherent-have been offered and now SUM
Der in tie desks of the Judiciary Committee.