Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-05-25
News and lettings.

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Mark Twain is above want, and will lee
ture no more.
A Missourian is suing sundry people for
trying to Richardson his wife away from
him.
RiAed cannon to safely throw grenades are
a Prussian invention.
In twenty-three weeks there have been
twenty rainy Mondays in Boston.
Since the death of Noah Webster one
thousand slang words have become a part of
the language of America.
A Utica lady, enthusiastically praising
her pony, exclaimed that be was real sweet
as beautiful an opium reverie. Sug-
gestive
An eccentric Englishman. recently mar
ried, was drawn by his bride to the church
in a bath chair, this being the condition on
which he married her.
AT Secor, ILL.,, ticket of five women,
nominated for town trustees, was only de-
feated by % majority.
A poor man in Omaha lives with his fami-
ly in one of the iron tubes used in the con-
struction of the bridge over the Mississippi
! A negro theater, to which plain people are
not admitted, is one of the delights of San
Antonio, Texas
A little girl in Kentucky went out to
drown kitten, the other day, but drowned
herself instead, and the kitten ran home.
Divorce on the ground of desertion is what
an Iowa woman wants, whose husband is in
the lunatic asylum.
| A Knoxville man has furnished a good
| temperance argument by getting his jaw
broken in Ehs ryrssi",s Of a barrel of ale he
Inc Pacific Railroad and Suez Canal are
racing on carrying mails from Australia to
England. The railroad beats by three days
SO far.
family of nine brothers and sisters in
Maine has never been invaded by death The
youngest is 90 and the oldest 70.
The Boston Board of Trade started on their
excursion to San Francisco yesterday morn
ing
The treasure shipments overland from San
Francisco to New York during the past week
amounted to $50 900 in coin.
Light rains have fallen, acco mpanied with
cool winds, which have greatly improved the
crops id the southern counties of California.
John Hopkins, who was injured on the
Northern Railroad on Saturday-both legs
crushed, necessitating amputation-died in
Lowell, Mass, Monday.
The ship Niagara arrived at San Francisco
Monday, from Hong Kong, bringing over
500 Chinese passengers. Small pox having |
broken out on board, she was detained at
quarantine.
The Methodist Board of Bishops meet in |
Dayton, Ohio, to-day. All the bishops ex- |
cepting Bishop Simpson will be present |
The object of the meeting is mainly to lay |
out the Episcopal work for the year.
Lato dispatches from Bombay state that |
nearly half of the cotton now shipped from /
Indian ports goes by way of the Suez Canal. |
Only small portion of this, however, reach |
ed England, the bulk of the cotton so ship |
ped g DING to the various ports the Med |
iterran can.
One hundred and forty-one thousand cigars
were made in one week at the penitentiary |
at Joliet, Illinois.
Minnesota has in her public libraries an |
aggregate of 80, 600 volumes.
The net income of the Illinois Central |
Railroad, 1869, was 81, 1897 1875 80.
a Masonic male and female college is to
be erected in Bolton, Texas
The Southern women of Richmond visited
lakewood Cemetery on the 10th, and scat
tered memorial wreaths over the graves of |
the Confederate dead. On the same day the
somb of Stonewall jackson. in the valley Of
Virginia, wss garlanded with white hQweIs
md immortelies
,ese in San FfzRafsc5s. cnffIg -sg6cn the Sbss
House was destroyed. Pistols, knives and
ron bars were freely used, and a number of
the Chinese were w6unsed The police
gathered in large numbers. and succeeded in
dispensing the rioters.
n heavy storm Of wind, rain and hail, pre-
vailed at Cincinnati Monday afternoon. Hail
stones fell in some places over one inch in
diameter. Many shade trees were blown
down.
The cut-worm is destroying the corn in
Kentucky, but as that is not always reliable,
they have invented new worm that is sure
death on crops, every time.
A Jersey City boy went under a stove for
his top, scalded the baby TO death, and burnt
himself and his mother so badly that they |
will die, too.
A California Indian went for bottle of
whisky to give his wife as an antidote for
rattlesnake bite. CHANGING to taste it him |
self, he finished the bottle, got drunk, and
the woman died.
The latest intoxicating fluid out is made
in Tennessee of sweet potatoes. Practical
experimenters say it goes further, lasts long
err and makes a quicker and more enduring
fiddle than any other liquid lightning now
in use.
As st. Louis has set its heart on having
the national Capitol, and there is no chance
Of its going there, Chicago advises its % sub
urb " to initiate the example of MahOmet
under similar circumstances, and remove TO
Washington.
The State House bell at Philadelphia rung
out a general alarm of fire, day or two ago,
without due cause, and crazy man was
found in the belfry working the lever. lie
said he was a. ringing the merry chimes of
| freedom" and that it was " sweet to live
| for those we love- which no one questioned.
| paper-miIl at Cohoes has just filled an
order for a sheet of paper four feet wide and
twenty-five miles long. Can 1t be that Mr..
Seward is about to write letter on the Ala
bama claims
The Lafayette Courier chronicles the
miracle that one Mrs. Macher, who was
d" cut to pieces with an ak " by her husband,
has - so far recovered as to be able to carry
plate of soup to her assassin in prison.
A fair immigrant named Annie Morgan is
said to have vociferOusly refused to be
- sealed - to one of Elder Kimball's stamp,
which is an apt illustration that Z" Sal EN-,
non Annie mum, nuitant qHi trans mare cur
rent
Mr. Lyman, an American expert, has been
engaged by the American government to ex-
Mark Twain is the only Britisher we know of
who has " struck lie " in a pun-job.
A colored barber, named Partridge, has
been residing for some time at Aurora,
Illinois, and while there succeeded in marry
ing four wives.
j A singular freak is recorded of the light
ming at Wiltwyck, in this state, last Thurs
day During the thunder shower, while two
men were standing talking together, stroke
of lighting passed between them, prostrating
one and killing a dog some distance from