Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-05-04
News and JOttingS.
Fort Sumter is to be reconstructed.
Lions of the day-Dandelions.

A New Orleans man dubbed another to
death, recently, for disputing with him.
Galveston % gentlemen - march into church
covered and putting cigars.
Sleighing in April-at Brighton.
A son of one of the Siamese twins lives in
Sacramento.
To make Venetian blind-Put out his
eye.
There is railing at the consolidation of
rails in New Hampshire.
A Georgian raises asparagus for market
on little garden patch of eight acres.
Partisan gourmets are RECALLING themselves
on violets fried in butter and sugar.
Forney says the " Senate is sound" 1t is
pretty much all sound.
An experiment with his neighbours bee |
hives has terminated the career of an adven- |
turous Indianian.
The Saugan Chippewa Indians to the num-
Der of one hundred, have offered their ser
vices to the Canadian government for service
in the Red River region.
A heavy frost in Georgia has damaged the
cotton, corn and vegetable crops.
little Italian girl has been bitten and
trampled to death by monkey. That's bet
ter than to marry one.
half-crazed youth, named Welge, shot and
killed little sister because she refused to
eat at his command. He escaped to the
woods, but was captured and sent to the
Lunatic Asylum.
Rowdies and pugilists will be interested
to hear that Jim Mace and Tom Allen will
have fight on the 10th of May, within
fifty miles of New Orleans.
The weather in Minnesota has experienced
a sudden change. Two weeks ago the ground
was covered with snow, and now it is almost
as warm as summer.
At Dunleith, Iowa, recently fire burned
a barn and fourteen heavy transfer wagons
that were so wedged together they could not
be got out. Loss, SIC, 900.
/ Rev. Jesse I. Peck, ID, late of Albany,
has been transferred to the New York Cen
trail Conference, and appointed to the pas
torate of the Methodist Centenary church
of Syracuse.
Commissioner Delano decides that tobacco
and cigar manufacturers bonds need not be
resumed on the first of May of each year,
provided the amount of the old bonds is
deemed ample and the securities good.
The new Presbytery of Colorado coveSs
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Montana ;
almost its first action was TO take measures
for subdivision.
The Wisconsin Teachers Association will
hold its next annual meeting in Watertown,
on the 18th, Goth and 2lst of July, 1870.
missing woman has just returned to her
, home near Pittsburgh. She reported that
! she knew nothing about leaving home, but
awoke one day to find herself at the mouth
of deserted coal mine a mile from her
house She says she is not insane, and has
no wish to commit suicide.
convention is to be held at Niagara Falls
5 on the fourth of July, to confer upon the
subject of the annexation of Canada to the
6 United States. Those who call the conven-
tien use as an argument TO affect Canadian
sentiment, the rapid grow tn of this country
' as compared with Canada.
e An old Indian squaw of the Ottawa tribe
aged one hundred and two years, has u set
of artificial teeth, and in consequence holds
her head aloft, and crashes her teeth in
pride, and not in anger.
Rev. DR.. Rankin, formerly of St. Adams
, who has been officiating at the Congrega-
tional Church in Washington, d. C., foI
! some months, was lately installed az
pastor of the church. The sermon was
i preached by Rev. r. S. Storrs, Jr., of Brook
-. yn
! 1t is not poverty so much as pretense that
D harnesses a ruined mantle struggle between
! a proud InlnQ anu an empty purse-tOe
o / keeping up IA hollow show tiuat mug. soou
come to end. Have courage to appear
Y poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpes
sting.
( OF 3,043 Congregational churches in th'
d country, $50, little more than one-half
d are in New England, says the Congregation
d alist.
Two foreigners detected in smuggling Minis
valuable Cambray lace shawls in their pack
5 cts, on the 23d ult., were examined befor,
# George F. IIoughton, U S Commissioner a
It St. Adams, and held to bail for their appear
ance at the July term Of the L. S. Distric
p, Court, TO be held at Windsor.
o Anna Dickinson has found sable rival il
10 the person of Madame E. C. L. Parqua, nov
lecturing in the West Mrs. Parqua
twenty-five years of age, widow, and re
sembles Miss Dickinson in her manner Of
y the stage, but the black speaker has a NOR
musical voice.
Il The Ripon (WiscoDsin) College is becom
% ing self-supportIng, the students sawn
ID their own wood, and even performing thei
h own surgical operations. Last week, Steele
Al class of 1863, now studying medicine an
a surgery in New York, ampGtated two fin
- gers for one of the students, making, tn
\ doctors say, a neat job.
le Iowa is excited over an elopement Th
J. u "
IN Island county, eloped with one George Wra
e, recently, and went 10 Red Oak, Montgomer
sr county, Iowa. The pair were pursue
a thither by Milton, and fight ensued be
II, tween him and Wray during which the for
in mer was shot in the side by the latter.
re At Newcastle, Ind, an insane woma
I'd named Reddiug lately put her own child int
s. box stove, shut it up, and burned it s
badly that it cannot recover. The child wa
,h about eight months old.
e. Gilmanton, N. H., has snow drifts twelv
es feet deep, yet the people are modest and ur
e. assuming about it.
is One of the Montreal regiments, guardin
he the frontier against the bloody Fenians, yo
know, numbers thirteen officers and eigh
,st privates.
he Philadelphia will cool herself with $50
tn 900 tons of ice, this summer. New Yor
in will require nearly three times that amour
d. to appease her thirst.
sc A negro convict in Mississippi broke frol
* the sheriff and plunged into the river. L
was not alive at last accounts.
A duel is imminent between two of Cil
D. cinnati's most brilliant and high-toned edi
cd ors, who have done the preliminary vitupe
alton already.
VS. Mrs. John Wood has brought out a. Fro
Frou - in her London theatre after a war
ell injunctions-
g, The Petersburg amendments are obliter
he ting the traces of the late unpleasantness
ng using the headboards of the Confederate de;
ar for fuel
Governor Walker of Virginia receiv
daily ten big bags full of applications f
10 office. He has the contents carefully 81
he away.
he Michigan crops promise we'll. The de