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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

The CUBAN News is the usual pot pourri Of
contradictory statements and brag. A few
days since the Spaniards announced the cap
ture of a convoy under charge Of Gen. Jor-
dan himself. Next the Junta proclaimed
that the Spaniards had been thoroughly de-
feated in their attempt. and that one of their
armies was routed beyond hope of ralIying.
As an offset TO this the Spaniards have sent
to Ha vana two cannon and var ious NUM-
tions of war, which being the same that
were recently landed from the United States,
go to show 4 severe reverse for the insur-
gents. A CONSUMPTION ordered by the Cap
General is believed to be helping the
more than the authorities, who now
pin their hopes mainly on a reinforcement Of
20 900 soon % arrive from the mother u
try. De Rodas is reported a. Disguised with
the volunteers and being about 10 resign,
while to make the muddle worse, a dispatch
from Madrid asserts that the preliminaries
of a treaty for the cession Of the island have
been signed.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

\ steamer from one Of the West Indian
ports to New York fell IN with a schooner
in distress, and ascertained that the captain
and two men were dead with yellow fever,
the same disease. The captain of the steam
er could not leave them. nor, in justice 70
his passengers, take them on board. lie
called for volunteers to assist in taking the
schooner into port. Only two responded
both negroes working their passage to the
North. These men nobly cast their lot with
the plague ship, and by their assistance it
was safely brought into port. This might
be called heroism if it had been done by any
body but " niggers."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

VERMONT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE Cow PA
NY.-From the forty-second annual report of
this company, just issued, we gather the fol-
lowing interesting particulars concerning its
business Whole number of policies issued
from March Slst, 1898, to August LIST, 1869,
147 ,l47 number remaining in force at the
last date, 26,64l insuring S33, us, S99.
The premium notes in force, being the capt.
tai of the company or fund available for the
payment of losses, amount to S3,076, 5l4 81.
The number of policies issued during the
year was 6,4S3, insuring property to the
amount of IS, l44 ,4O8.
An assessment of 3 per cent, one Sixteenth
of one per cent. less than the average for the
whole time the company has been in exist
ence, suffces for the payment of 244 losses
amounting to 500, 5S49 90, besides meeting
expenditures on account of new Office to the
amount of $24, 614. 90. The entire disburse-
ments of the Company since its organization
foot up to the comfortable little sum of
$l,722 ,095.33. The people of the State,
for whose benefit the business of the Com
pany has been carried on, have good cause to
congratulate themselves on the success which
has attended their efforts to secure safe in
surance at actual first cost.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

SPAIN is again tolerably tranquil, waitin 2
for the October session of the Cortes to elect
a King. The Carlist movement is quelled
for this week, to arise again perhaps the
next. The most remarkable intelligence Is
that which says the preliminaries Of a treaty
to cede Cuba have been signed. The World
Processes to have information that Spain il
willing TO sell Cuba TO the Cubans, and that
the trade will very shortly be consummated.
1t will be a bitter cup for the hidalgos to
swallow, but recent events, and the tone of
the European press, make the transaction
have a look of probability. Whether it i
done or not the Cortes have a hard task be-
fore them, and are likely to experience how
much easier it is to start revolutions than to
stop them.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

H-YDRoGARPHIcAL SURvEYs.-The final Re
port of Walter Wells, the Superintendent of
the photographic Survey of Maine, has been
brought out, and is now in press. By this
survey it is found that resources, hitherto
unknown, abound in that State and thousands
of square miles in its central parts, before
considered of little or no value except for the
forests, are found TO present superior facilities
for manufacturing purposes.
The numerous lakes that abound will fur
nish water that naturally h0ws from them
and many if not most of them, will serve as
reservoirs for the water to be used during
extreme dry seasons.
In the legislature of our State last fall there
was a resolution adopted instructing the
Secretary of State to issue circulars to the
town clerks and selectmen of each town in
the State, calling for information as to the
number and capacity of the several water
powers in each town, and the advantages
which they offer for the employment Of man
ufacturing industry.
In addition to these it is added that a
statement be made giving the amount invest
ed in the several manufactures now moved
by water power, together with the annual
products of the several mines and quarries,
the number of men employed, the tonnage
and value of the articles produced, etc.
The object aimed at in making these iu-
quiries is to collect and place in tangible
form, for the eye of capitalists, the extent Of
our manufacturing establishments, and also
the undeveloped resources of the State that
need but money, brain and muscle to make
them valuable 10 the owner and of service to
the world.
We hope, therefore, all 70 whom these
circulars have been sent, will attend at once
to answering the interrogatories, and send
them to the Secretary of State Immediately,
that he may place them in the report which
he is to make to the legislature at its next
session .-RutiaRd Herald.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

HARVARD n OxFoRD.-To-day occurs the
long talked of race between the representa-
tiyes of Young America and Old England
for the aquatic championship of the col,
legiate world. 1t is safe to say that no sim
liar contest since the Olympic games has
been so much looked forward to, and over
none was ever such flourish of trumpets.
The ablcst newspapers of London devote their
columns to specializing IN the chances and
criticising the contestants. 1t is safe to say
that four better oarsmen could not be found
in the colleges of America than the repre-
sentatives of Harvard and whether they win
or lose, their spunk deserves and will receive
abundant admiration. The betting, the best
test of English opinion, is about two to one
against the Americans.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

An English company has purchased an ex
tenSive lake, surrounded by mountains, in the
neighborhood OF Droebak, Norway, on the
Gulf of Christiana, and. TO insure the per
feet purity of the water from sewerage. has
even bought all the houses that stand on its
shores. Each winter, the ice, which frequent
ly attains a thickness of two or three feet, is
cut by a kind of plough into long strips, and
subsequently sawn into long blocks weighing
from three t. five hundred weight. In this
form it is shipped for export, and, in prop
erly constructed cellars, can be preserved tor
so long a period that a large portion Of the
ice now sold in London actually arrived in
1866 Besides the regular ships belonging
TO the company, many vessels accidentally
frozen up in the Norwegian iords leave in
the spring with cargoes Of ice.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

A very funny, to the lookers-on, quarrel
has risen, declined and fallen through in
North Carolina within a few days. Senator
Abbott declared himself responsible for a
statement that a certain editor was a liar,
&c. Both parties managed after considerable
loud talk to get themselves under bonds to
keep the peace, w%hereupon the honorable
senator retracted his statement and regretted
it had ever been published. The friends of
the editor politely reJoined that no assault
on the private character of Mr.. Abbott had
been intended, and the Pickwickian contest
is over.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

The Republicans of Maryland, who have
no strength to spare, are as usual at logger
heads. Itseems to be the State against Bal
timore, at all events a number of gentlemen
OF influence have found themselves threat
ened with communication by what they
call a Baltimore clique, while they declare
thai their differences are purely personal or
relate to matters concerning which Republi-
cans " may with mutual kindness differ
The Republican minority of Maryland has
lone as much good in times past as many
majorities it seems a great pity to neutralize
its infuenee by petty, personal squabbIes.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

At the recent term of the Supreme Court
of this county, the report of the commission
ers appointed a year since, was accepted,
laying a highway from a point in Fayston
througha point in the Green Mountains,
across Avery and Buel's Cores, into the
four miles. The road, when built, will open
communication between Waitsfeld and the
other towns in Mad River valley, on the one
side, and Starksboro, Bristol, Middlebury,
etc. On the other side of the mountains
The inhabitants of these sections, though liv
ing almost contiguous to each other, have
been comparative strangers heretofore.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

A VALUABLE LEGACY--The late Hon.
Richard Fletcher, of Boston, brother Of ex-
Governor Ryland Fletcher, in his viii, kindly
remembered his native town. Cavendish, by
bequeathing 70 it his valuable library, to-
gether with two thousand dollars, 70 be in
vested for and in behalf of the town. for the
purpose Of making an addition of books to the
same. The Rutland Herald says
IL is stipulated in the will, however, that
the town shall erect a suitable building in
which to keep the library, and in case the
town does not take measures 10 do 50, it Is
to 90 To the town of Townshend, the residence
of his brother, Rev. Horace Fletcher, d. D..
and in case neither Of these towns viii erect
a suitable building for the library, it is to 90
to any other town or Institution that his eX-
ecutor and others named may select.
The library Of Judge Fletcher is one Of the
best private libraries in the city Of Boston,
and we trust the people OF Cavendish will
not be so blind TO their own interests, and to
the welfare Of the rising generation as to let
this golden opportunity pass unnoticed
Bennington, through the munifcence Of
Hon. I. W. Park, and Post Mills village, by
the generosity of George Peabody, have each
had a gift similar TO the one now rendered TO
the town Of Cavendish.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25
g How Shall Recover My Health p

Thi. is the mental question asked by the sick, and at
ter repeated failures. Have You used B~RANDRETH'S
l. This is a medicine which simply '' cieansss',-
cleanses the blood and every organ in the body. This
Sc dursation " is sure 10 restore your health, II pursued
in accordance with the printed directions. One who
has recovered his own health By this means tells you to
have courage and do likewise. J. J. Cook, publisher OF
the Banner Or 1 y years, Of Bennington. Vt, says,
{" Brandreth's Pills cured me of dyspepsia when every
means had failed, and 1 was actually given up by physi-
clans and friends"
SerOfuIa OF IL Years Standing Cured.
PREsToNvILLE. Pa, January IA, 1863;
DIR. BTa~ndreth-DesT Sir: | have been afflicted with
scrofula for forty-rwo years hui when hope had long
departed, salvation unexpectedly came. I have used
pills for the last fifteen months. Lsngusg. fans to con
vey an idea of the blessing they have been 10 me; they
have cured me, and my health and strength are now
perfectly restored. LUCIEN B. JONES.
Sold by all Druggists. DR.. Brand.eth's office. Bran
dreth House. New York
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

How 0RoIDE Is MADE" Oroide," the
beautiful alloy resembling gold, is a French
discovery, and consists Of pure copper, 100
parts zinc OF preferably tin, l. parts :;
maguesia, 8 parts sal ammoniac, ID part ;
~quieklime Is part tartar of m 9
parts. The copper is first melted, then the
.magnesia, sal ammoniac, lime, and tartar in
powder are added little by little, briskiy
stirring for about half an hour, so as TO mix
thoroughly after which zinc is thrown on the
surface in small grains, stirring it until en-
tirely fused. The crucible is then covered.
and the fusion maintained about thirty-fve
minutes, when the dross is skimmed off, and
the alloy is ready for use 1t can be east,
rolled, drawn, stamped, chased, beaten into 4
powder or leaves, and none but excellent
judges can distinguish it from gold.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

A Woman's Suffrage Convention was held
lately in the siowest and most conservative
town of Massachusetts towns, Ncwburyp0rt.
1t appears to have been a great success both
in numbers and interest. Mr.. Garrison. a
native of the town, wrote for the convention
a series of admirable resolutions, which he
Ward Howe, Miss f. P Peabody. Judge
Ames, OF the Suffolk Probate Court, Rev.
Phebe \. Hanaford, Rev. Olympia Brown.
Rev. Joseph May, and Others took part in
the proceedings. \ convention for the same
purpose is called to meet at Newport the
present month.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

A large number of prominent officers, who
held command at Gettysburg, meet this week
to fix by concurrent testimony some Of the
most interesting points of the battle, which
are to be marked by suitable monuments.
1t has been hoped, rather than expected,
that Gen. Lee and some of his officers would
be present. TIL Richmond Examiner thinks
their coming would do more to heal the Bit
terness between the sections than perhaps
any other event that could occur.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25
TO OWNERS OF HORSES AND
CATTLE.

TOBIAS DERBY CONDITION Pc VDEss ARE
warranted superior To airy others, or no pay. tor the cure
Of D~is,emPer, Worms, Bots, Coughs. Hide bound.
Colds, &c, IN Horses; and Colds. Coughs. Less Of
milk, Black Tongue, Horn Distemner. SC. IA Cattle.
They are perfectly safe aud innocent no need OF stop-
ping the working OF your animals. They increase the
appetite, give a hRe coat. cleanse the stomach and URN
airy organs also increase the milk Of COWS. TRY them
aud you Will never be without them. The late Hir.n
Woodruff, celebrated trainer Of horses, ufed them for
weary. Col, Phiio. P. Bush, one OF the Jerome Race
Course, Fordham, n, Y would not use them until he
WAS taid OF what they are composed since which he l.
never without them He n ; over twenty running hor-
ses IN his charge, and Tor the last three years has used
no other medicine for them, He has kindly permitted
me TO refer any onr 10 him. over 1000 other re ferenceS
can be seen at the Depot.
Sold by Drug sists aud SadIeR Price u cents ner
box. Depot, 10 Park Place, New YORK. N29w5
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

LABOR CoNGREss.-A national convention
of laborers has been held at Philadel phia
and was well attended by delegates from all
parts of the country. There was a great
deal of speech-making and some disagree
ment, but on the whole the congress got on
very we'll 1t resolved among other things
that we demand an adjustment of duties that
will protect American labor and restrain the
importation of articles we have the ability
to produce ourselves. 1t also provided for
the various trade societies furnishing fuller
statistics of labor and the result of eoopera-
tive action.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

The :. Veteran Observer " of the New York
Times thinks Pendleton is in no immediate
danger of carrying Ohio. He shows good rea-
sons for expecting that in certain localities
Hayes will get 10000 more votes than last
year, and believes that no ponsible Democra-
tic excitement can get out votes enough to
make up for this great accession of Republi-
can strength.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

CIISANEN At THE wASH-TUB.-Of all the
-employments to which Cinnamon apply them
selves in San Francisco, they seem to best
succeed in the laundry business. They are
wonderful washermen, though they insist
upon happening clothes by taking the water
IN their mouths and sendIug 1t out in spray
through their closed teeth-a process to
which some sensitive customers 0biect-and
they iron shirts with the bottom of a pan
filled with charcoal and obstinately refuse
to use the hat-iron, which Is simpler and
better. But they return shirts in beautiful
condition, with all the buttons sewei on. and
dilapidated garments neatly mended and
al this is done at about one-half of the price
Charged ny rnc san Frru-fsco wa-ucrw9mv-
for half the work Consequently, the China
men as washermen are very successful, So
much 50 that strong hopes are entertained
that they may in time learn to wash them
selves.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

Philadelphia is agitated over a threatened
water famine. The drought in that vicinity
has been very severe, and there is almost no
water in the streams, while the great reser-
voirs of the Paramount works are nearly
empty. Manufacturing establishments and
others using large quantities of the precious
fluid have been notified by the authorities to
suspend operations till after a rain.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

Several New York papers are discussing
the great waste of sewage in that city. They
declare that at least $50, O0O, 900 worth is
yearly thrown into the sea where it is a pos
tive nuisance. If the refuse of a large city
is worth so much that even of small villages
ought to pay for saving. There is an excel
lent chance for some smart Yankee to get
rich by discovering a cheap method of util-
izing what is now mainly thrown away as a
nuisance.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

His Royal Highness, Prince Arthur, third
son of Queen Victoria, has arrived at Halifax,
to serve awhile with his regiment. lie is
described as a tall natty fellow of nineteen,
and at his reception condescended to speak
affably to the Governor General and other
notabilities, who could get near him
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25
SPECIAL NOTICES.
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Concentrated Fluid Extract
SARSAPARILLA,
ERADICATEs ERUPTIYE & LUCRATIVE DISEASES
Of the
Throat, Nose, Eyes, Eyelids, Scalp and

Which so d~isfgure the appearance, PURGING the
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TNO TABLE-SPOONFULS of the Extract of S1r-
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the Syrup of Sarsaparills, or the decOctio1s as usualy
made
AN INTERESTING LETTER is published in The
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It's power is extraordinary, more 50 than any other drug
/ am acquainted with. IL Is. IN the sIrictest sense, a
tonic with this Invaluable attribute, that IL Is applicable
10 a state OF the system so sunken, and yet 50 irritable
a. renders other substances Of the tonic class unavaila-
hle OF inlnTious.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

brides and such articles. They would climb
up no any such article left within their reach
in countless numbers, and in a very short
space of time it would be almost totally de-
voured. The fish in the river which they
crossed would not bite for four days after
ward, having been completely gorged with
grasshoppers.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

TIE PLAGUE OF THE LOCUsTs. "A late num-
Der of the Territorial Enterprise, published
at Virginia, Nevada, says a gentleman from
the new mines on the Owyhee river, eighty
miles north of Elko, reports that while in
that region, encamped in the vicinity of
Mountain City, he had an opportunity of see
two OF three armies of those g~rassheppers
or crickets, of which we have heard so much
through the Western papers. He says that
they came in three or four divisions-ea each a
mile in length by half a mile in width. They
stopped at nothing-evidently belonging to
the class of the unterrifed. Fire and water
were all the same TO them. On reaching
Owyhee they swan the river. They went out
from such willows as stretched across the
stream as far as they reached, when they
Jumped in and struck out for the opposite
shore. Millions of these strange insects thus
crossed the river-which at the point men,
toned is at least thirty feet wide-and went
hopping on to the southwark. Each army
travelled in a southern direction. the whole
face of the country is covered with grass. the
usual food of these insects, but they held it
cheap, there being such an abundance of it,
and went after something stronger. Passing
by all vegetable food, they attacked saddles,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25
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only true and perfect Dye harmless, reliable. Instant
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the Hair sott and beautiful, Black or Brown. Sold by
all Druggists and Perfumsrs and properly applied At
Batchellor's Wig Factory, No. I6, Bond ST.. Y.
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

The munifcence of Mr.. Peabody has found
an imitator in the person of Mr. Mason, a
manufacturer of Birmingham, who has given
ST. 300 900 in gold to establish a set.o of aims
houses and orphanages.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-08-25

l CLEAR. cor SKIN AND
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it removes black spots. puppies aud all eruptioHs Of
the skin.
H~ELMBOLD'S EXTRACT SARSAPsRILLA
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