Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-12-28
News and .JOtfiugS.

North Cornwall, Conn, boasts Of a bride
only thirteen years old.
Sixty newspapers on the Pacific colst have
failed the past year
Russia has co. cotton factories employing
$50 600 operatives.
The Fenian eonvicts in England have been
liberated.
- \ politician Is a man who thinks Of the
next election while a Statesman thinks of
the next generation
A Detroit lad has killed seventeen cats this
fall and sold their hides u buy his poor
mother a set of false teeth.
The dreadful report comes from Chicago
that audiences in that village don't know a
symphony from a sardine.
Diamonds in the London market have fallen
in value thirty per cent, owing to the great
quantity offered by refugees from France
Secretary Boutwell, has appointed James
II. Chalkcr a special agent Of the Treasury
Department, and he viii lie assigned to duty
in New England
- The good are taken first " does not ap-
ply at photograph establishments OF BARRIERS
shops Each must take his turn, good or
wicked.
A ring was found by lad last week in
the water at South Beach, Nantucket, which
was lost by lady while bathing twenty
years ago. The ring was returned to her.
It is said that the Kaw Indians salt the
railroad track in their country for the pur-
pose Of enticing cattle ia front Of the engine,
so they can get the carcasscs.
The postal service for the French has been
recommended round Paris at the rate of three
confines q letter, all French persons being
required to deliver their letters open.
In LowndesbOro a Ia, Il few days ago, one
where esriGIg tagg s&GEal taU1Gd INTO a-I2t
day twenty-one Of them were dead.
Cotton stalks arc reported to be in bloom
at GuardO, Tenn, agricultural phenOme-
non which is said 70 have been unknown be-
fore for almost half a century.
Lilac bushes in some situations in Hart
ford are covered with leaf buds. The mild
ness of the temperature is remarkable for the
season.
There is a young lady in Springfield, Ohio,
twenty years Of age, who never saw snow
until the morning of November ID, 1870. She
came from Australia.
" What's the difference between the North
Pole and South Pole - :. Why, all the diff
ference in the world replied a lady, I'M
Willingly; and that's the right answer.
W Ii. Cook, former editor Of the Ben.
nington Banner, left town on Monday, in
tending to engage in the cotton trade in
Atlanta, Georgia.
sensible man found the biggest diamond
yet, in South Africa. Refusing an offer OF
$4,000 for it, he quit work and started
for England, satisfied with what he has.
Franklin, y. H., has a sheeted ghost, OIL
something Of a mortal nature in snowy hab
iliments, that follows young men and wOmer
about with perfect recklessness.
Enlisted men in the army who lose theil
Sharpe or Remington muskets by careless
ness, will hereafter be charged fifty dollars
f according TO an order Of the war depart
ment
KEROsENE.-The insurance agents of Bridge
port, CT, are out with a card, warning th'
. public against all forms Of petroleum for
Illuminating purposes except regulation
I kerosene.
: The engineers Of the North Pacific roa,
have discovered vast veins OF coal on the lin
Of the road in the valley Of the Missouri