Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-09-14
News Items.

Treasurer Spinner is again very sick, and
unable to attend to his official duties.
General Sherman arrived in San Fran
cisco on Wednesday, and received an ovation
The French cable between st. Pierre and
Duxbury is now repaired, and the tests are
perfect. All three of the Atlantic cables
are now in complete working order.
The little ship City of Ragusa, twenty
feet long, and carrying two men, which lett
Liverpool three months ago, has arrived in
Boston.
In the San Francisco municipal election,
the taxpayers ticket, with few exceptions,
carried the day.
Three thousand tons of wheat were ship
pen over the California and Oregon Railroad
| In August, which is but small portion OF
| the wheat vet stored In the Sacramento Val
ley. The farmers are holding for a rise.
One of the first really good buildings that
was erected in San Francisco, was made of
stone, all of which was cut, fitted, and
placed in position without mortar, in China,
and then shipped across the water.
The printers strike, which was renewed
| in Sacramento after its defeat in San Fran
cisco, has also totally failed. The refusal of
several California newspapers to re-employ
any strikers has thrown many men out OF
competent compositors who have had no part
in the movement.
The September examinations of appointees
to the military academy at West Point have
resulted in similar slaughter to that which
marked the June examinations. OF the
fifty-one young men who presented them
selves only twenty-five were admitted, most
of them failing in the rudimentary branches
of education, like spelling and grammar
The Pope has completed his arrangements
for retiring from Rome upon the arrival OF
the italian army of occupation. He will 90
to his summer palace at Castel Gandolfo.
This village is about fourteen miles southeast
5of Rome, and is picturesquely situated on
| volcanic peak 43I feet above beautiful lake.
The spot is one of the loveliest in Italy.
The number of legless and armless soldiers
now borne on the rolls OF the Pension Office
| is as follows Number having lost both
| legs, forty-two; one leg, four thousand six
hundred and twenty-seven; both arms, five
thousand and six; one arm and one leg,
twenty-one.
Since 1852 the Bots de Boulogne is com
puted to have cost the city of Paris 1862
| l27 francs. The expenses have been far
greater, but the municipality has been REIN
| bursed by the great sums received for the
sites of villas, and considerable amount
in the Jardin d'Acclimatisation have been
removed, during the present critical state OF
affairs, to Belgium and the Jardin des Plantes.
A postal convention has been establish ed
between this country and Brazil, which goes
into operation Immediately, which establish
es q uniform rate of letter postage of fifteen
cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof,
which is to be prepaid. Newspapers are
charged two cents Tor each four ounces, and
one cent in addition for each paper.
The honor of being the first woman lectur-
er made welcome by the Southerners, Is
claimed for Miss Olive Logan. Last year
she lectured in Delaware, Maryland, and
Kentucky. Baltimore and Louisville gave
her four good houses in one season. This
year she has received invitations from Nir-
ginia-a State hitherto unknown by expert
ence to women lecturers. and indeed to lee
turers at all.
For some reason or other, the endeavOrs
of the Prussans to make war loans have not
met with marked success, or indeed, with
anything that approaches TO success. This
is very pulling, IN view OF the undoubted
patriotism of the German people. 1t cannot
proceed from poverty, because we know how
largely the Germans have invested IN our
national bonds, and money rarely goes abroad
until il has become a drug at home.
Berlin, says a London Tunes correspond
ent, has hardly any longer the heart to exult
over the news of victory coming in. As the
King the other day wrote to his Queen from
the battle field that he could scarcely bring
himself to ask after his acquaintance, -
many of them were dead or manned. 60 the
inhabitants Of this capital have had then
10y over an uninterrupted run Of success sen
sibly damped by the attendant losses. The
butcheries of the 10th and 18th more partic
ularly cast gloom over the city.