Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-08-10
News and lettings.

News and lettings.
The Sandwich Islands Legislature mas
passed divorce law.
Lead ore has been discovered mile anu
half north of New Albany, Indiana.
Americans are said to be the greatest
wearers of gloves of any nation in the "otiu'
1t is the fashion in Philadelphia 70 steal
ice from a neighbours doorway.
Gov. Short of Alabama is at Saratoga His
bill will be longer.
The heat in England this summer mas Deen
three degrees above the average OF 'ne iaSt
fifty years. -,
The New York Democrat has been solo oy
Brick Pomeroy to ex-Surrogate Gideon j.
Tucker.
With the appearance of green apples and
peaches the doctors bank accounts are lat
tening up.
Admiral Farraguts health has much I'M
proved during the past few days.
Miss Matte Everett recently made trip
to California as correspondent of the Onieago
Journal.
An Illinois boy lost most of his toes by
chasing quail in front of moving ma
chine.
A Memphis cook carelessly emptied match
safe in a teapot, and the family of seven sleep
with their fathers.
New Hampshire's foxes are having their
Thanksgiving now. and the young turkeys
are growing scarce.
How long does a widow mourn? For a
second.
Michigan has 1925 miles of railroad in
operation.
Seventy-fve thousand dollars have been
appropriated for repairs on the Missouri
State House.
1t is impossible to open the State Normal
School at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this year, Tor
want of funds.
The Mormon Ladies' Retrenchment Society
is making brown bread and bean soup diet
one of its articles of faith.
1t does not follow that babies will make
good auctioneers because they are such sue
cessful " criers."
The new Crispin shoe company in North
Adams have begun operations with good
prospects of success.
Great efforts are made to obtain recruits
in England for the army, but they meet no
success.
1t is said the British Government will soon
take measures for organizing an Irish militia
force.
Charles Dickens, Jr, has bought in the
property of his late father which was put up
at auction.
Twelve sheep and two boys were killed by
lightning in a slaughter yard in La Crosse,
Wisconsin, on the 18th inst.
Visitors to the mountain resorts speak
with rapture Of the fine cloud effects pro-
duced this season by passing showers
A lady in Midland, Michigan, was bitten
lately by potato bug on the neck. The
poison is spreading through her system, and
fatal results are feared.
Lake George has attracted comparatively
few visitors this summer. Indeed all the
places of fashionable resort show falling of
this year.
A young fellow who saw the tiger in New
York last winter, has been initiating his
Pittsburgh friends into the hosts Of Faro.
1t cost one of them $500 TO learn the game.
A United States license has been issued &c
Miss Emma Abmancer, of East Saginaw.
Michigan, as an insurance agent.
The Congregational Church at Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, is without pastor, and vet offers
a salary of $4,000 per annum.
Near Harrisville, Michigan, a 300 pound
bear visited gentleman s pigpen and carried
off DDS pound porker. The bear was after
ward caught and killed.
George Marks intends to employ one hun.
dred and fifty Cinnamon in his stone quarre:
on the AdirOndacks.
The berry season helps the sugar business
1t is estimated that the several sugar refine
ries in Boston turn out at the present time
about 1900 barrels daily.
The crops in New Hampshire are said :,
be suffering severely from the long continuel
drouth. Many fields of corn have been com
pletely destroyed by the heat.
The Los Angeles Nelcs mentions a repor
that A. t. Stewart of New York has ordere,
six hundred tons of California blankets from
the woollen mills of that State.
Chicago Is considering the question O
pOlicewomen to deal with the pretty cOteriet
Of evil doers.
Congressman Mckee ls looking for al
eligible coIored youth to send to the Nsva
School at Annapolis.
J G. SAKE is going to delight the editor
of Vermont by giving them that which b
ode, on the lth instant
A. NJ. Higgins, of St. Georges. Delaware
was drowned while bathing at Cape Ma
yesterday morning.
A young woman In Iowa walked twentl
miles to have her teeth pulled, and stirre,
her stumps back again Immediately after To,
operation.
| A Hindoo cabby, before mounting the boz
and taking reins and whip in hand, Away
first formally prays that his driving be TO III
glory of his God.
The entire police force of a Pennsylvanii
town resigned in body the other day, from
lonesomeness. 1t was a man named Jones
A boy in Portland has had bean removes
from his ear which had been there thirteel
years, and the only change it had sustaine,
during this long period of time was a chang
of its color to black.
An old pedagogue of South Carolina ha
just died, whose proudest boast was that h
had logged the governor, the judge, and man
lawyers-when they were boys.
The Rev. Elias Libby, aged eighty-seven
of Limerick, Maine, picked half bushel O
blueberries on Saturday, and preached sever
al times on unday.
General Reynolds reports that the Indian
are troublesome in Texas, and that they ar
armed with revolvers and the best of arm
and ammunition of all kinds.
A dashy g Colonel " of fifty years has beel
cutting a swell among wealthy Kansas wild
ows, lately, and his wife has just sent for hir
and forced him to shell out $1,000 which h
borrowed of her before he started out.
Two hundred and forty-two patents wsr
issued on the I'd of August, of which % y
new ones, eight reissues and seven designs
Counterfeit ten dollar bills of the Firs
National Bank of Poughkeepsie have az
peared in considerable numbers in this SCI
ton. The face is very finely executed, bu
the reverse is bad piece of work.
The Chicago Times says that a carefJ
study of the census figures, as far as the
have been obtained, furnishes an indicatiO
that the population of that city is rattle