Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-08-24

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A duel in Illinois, lately ,w;tb tbre. -t;,.a
j nitchforks, was cornplets s',eess. Fs.h ae
the contestants received fatal wounds.
i An Indiana man had fainting fit while
being married the other evening, and died
soon enough " "'ert the completion of the
ceremony
A Paris agricultural journal saws that
Europe has not suffered from SO severe a
drough as the present one for 200 wears.
Detroit has boat cluh of vo,n,, ,.s;..
who go out rowing twice week. and are mi
/ through regular course Of training.
Acrvant girl frustrated a hurolar,s Mans
b tj = nm II. out Ua Of garnet window to
shock.
A worried railroad conductor saws that a
stone deaf man will 90 five miles ont Of his
way to walk on railway track.
English Spiritualists saw Charles Dickens
has been received into the snirit world ana
introduced by Prince Albert to the society
which makes up that sphere.
Everybody remembers how the sbinwrectad
sailor on an island came across a 0aIiows and
was thankful that he had reached Christian
country. 50 Sitka is civilizing-they have
had prize-fght there.
The Pullman Palace Car Co.. Organized in
1867, with capital of 81 900 900, has now
increased 1t to $4,000 900. 1t runs its cars
over fifteen thousand miles of railroad, and
employs about three thousand men,
The command " not to make any craven
image has hitherto prevented Jews from
taking the rank as painters and sculptors
which they take in literature and music.
But now thirty Jewish artists have paintings
or statuary on exhibition at the . Salon .
in Paris.
The colored republicans of Cincinnati have
Just formed Z" Fifteenth Amendment Re-
publican Club" and resolved that they do
not favor the efforts of demagogues in Z set
ting things up, and foisting their painfully
apparent mediocrity on the party
a Wilmington paper has returns showing
that the democrats have at least thirty-three
of the fifty senators in the new North Caro-
lima legislature, and eighty of one hundred
and twenty members of the House, with
more districts TO be heard from in both
branches.
An Indiana paper reports that Mrs. Jabez
Ellison OF De alb County recently larruped
Jabez within an inch of his precious life, the
monster having concluded a matrimonial
quarrel in which he failed to sustain himself.
by splitting on some fritters in course of prep
aratIon for supper.
An English architect has pu blished plan
for building an immense national mauso-
leum. The building is to contain space for
the lnterment of two million bodies The
style Is to be Gothic and for style and
magnihcence St. Paul's and ST. Peters, at
Rome, will be but as dwarfs in comparison.
A Buffalo serenader sang q I'm thinking,
love, of thee, when the des cent of about four
gallons OF water from third story window
/ proved that her papa was thinking of him.
The discovery of sui phur spring at Troy
is thought TO indica te the fact that the city
is an awfully wicked place.
| The United Sons of Vulcan - is the i'm
posing name of an organization of wOrkmen
in the iron manufactures of Pennsylvania
which has just held convention at Harris
burg.
Persons DESTROYS of serving their country
will learn with surprise that in our consular
| service are thirty vacancies. These are, how
ever, at unimportant and cheap ports. Thos,
at London, Hayre, &c, are filed.
The Chinese determine whether the wear
will be good or bad by placing at the com
mencement of the year measure of seed il
an earthen vessel, and leaving the vessel il
dark cellar fifty days. They then remeas
ure the seed, and as the bulk has increased
OF decreased the season will be good or bad
As an instance of the delays attending tn,
movement Of troops, it is estimated that the
French Eastern Railroad Company would re
quire ten days to move force of 40 900 mel
with horses, ammunition, &c, from ChalOn
to the frontier, even if train could be de
spatehst e~@-y
The Queen of Prussia has issued a Iaconi,
address, IN which she SAYS - the Fatherlan,
expects that every woman will do her duty
In the first place, send help to the Rhine
The Gaulois says that 75 per cent. of tn
French sick and wounded in the Crimea die,
from want of sufficient succor.
An ordinary rifle ball costs in France abou
a cent, while an explosive one costs As cents
This Is considered a stronger reason for no
using explosive balls than the intense suffer
ing they cause.
Philip r. Metz, Pittsburg banker, blew
his brains out recently. This was the plaI
he adopted to retrieve speculative losses.
a New York tailor was startled, the othe
day, by the return of bill which he ha,
sent 10 magazine editor, with notice tina
the - manuscript was respectfully declined
Miss Anna Morrison, beautiful California
girl, is stumping that State in opposition t
woman suffrage.
Capt. Willard, warden at the State Pris-
on at Werhersheld, CT. who was stabbed b
a convict named James Wilson, has sine
/ died.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, are in
Jersey City accompanied by three of theii
sons. Chang is suffering from an attack 0
partial paralysis, and is confined to his bed
and Eng Is, of course, forced to remain witt
him.