Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-05-04

will not be issued this year, but are succeeded
BY low immigrant fares, which in many cases
ire only one cent a mile.
Mr.. Bond, the territorial librarian of New
Mexico, has been selling off a lot of old
wrapping paper, and the citizens are mad
about it, as the records of two hundred years,
md the titles to nearly all the property
were written on it.
New Orleans is modestly exultant over a
tuel with swords, in which one gentleman
was prodded in the lungs, suicide of a
young girl from disappointed love, two stab
bing ARRAYS, one fatal, and a shooting case,
all in one day,
Chicago sees in the Richmond disaster
presage of the fate of her own courthouse,
which the Times call ga lettering man.
trap
:. The Hartford papers say that shad, in the
formerly, and are more enormous.
The blue grass region, in Kentucky, ex-
tends over thirteen of the most fertile coun-
ties IN the State. The reason for calling it |
blue grass region is simply because blue grass |
grows spontaneously. Blue grass will grow
almost anywhere by sowing it but here it
grows year after year, and never f" runs OUT
1t Is not so suitable for hay as for grazing |
purposes.
A lad OF eighteen years, in Butler county, |
Pa, never saw anything till the other day,
when doctor removed cataracts from both |
his eyes, which had been there since his birth.
lie now sees everything, and is greatly
amazed and delighted, but a correct knowl-
edge of eolors, the distance, size and quail
ties of objects, will require time and practice.
At Rockdale, Iowa, somewhat singular
circumstance occurred the other day, the
sparks from the engine setting fire to the dry
grass in the Rockdale cemetery Before it
was discovered the flames, fed by a strong
wind. got under considerable Roadway, and
fences and enclosures to the burial lots were
consumed. The flames were finally subdued.
A hen in Wilmington, n. c., has laid
eighteen eggs about the size of partridge
eggs, but containing no yolk. Over this
important fact, and the arrival in town of a
lively young alligator, Wilmington is unduly
excited.
Mr. Wake, in the Archaeological Society
of London, has lately read paper suggest
ing that the original seat of human cIvllIza-
ton was probably the island of Madagascar.
A substance called d" naphthaline," occurs
in large quantities in the waste OF gas works,
and has always been rejected as worthless
Professor Asa Gray has discovered that it is
an admirable substitute for camphor, as a
protection against moths and other insects.
Fort Sumter is in danger of being carried
of by tourists. A Charleston paper of the
| 22d says that " if all Fort Sumter excur-
sionists bring away as much of the fort as Il
party of eight northerners did yesterday, as
relics, the government, if it waits awhile,
will be saved the expense of leveling the
walls
American silver is at discount of five per
Nd he mplOQ0-
| ing themselves of their headed specie with
all speed.
The Sultan finds it rather expensive to
keep house The family, including his 300
wives, numbers 1900 persons, and it re-
quires 500 tables to seat them at dinner time.
A man in Wisconsin has invented pocket
stove, warmed by alcohol. We have seen
one of them. 1t looks very much like pint
flask filled with brandy.
Offers have lately been killed with clubs
on the prairies near Nuda, MINI.
Forty lodges of Odd Fellows will hold a
festival at Chenoa, Illinois, on the Goth in
slant.
Communication with Lake Superior will
be unusually cheap and easy this summer by
| regular lines of steamers on Lake Huron and
other western waters.
Minnesota has had heavy fall of snow
this week. On the 18th ult. the snow was
a foot deep in some localities.
! A Michigan woman has recovered by Law
all the money that her husband spent in a
LIQUOR saloon for six years The prohib itOry
liquor law of the state does not regard liquor
as property, and the woman recovered thC
I money on the ground that it had been PaiC
to the liquor vender without consideration.
Fishing and politics are both appreciated
by the enfranchised negroes. The Nashville
Banner the other day asked an old negro
who was fishing in the river, " What luck p
He replied, " De fish is like de dimocratc
arter us niggers' votes. Dey want all d,
bait, hut won't hang on to de hook.
The ladies seem disposed to unite in ress-
} lance to the efforts now made by dress max
ers to discard the clearly and convenien
short walking dress, and to bring into us
again the long, flth-collecting trains. Coco
taste doubtless has something to DO with TIN
! new declaration of independence, and posi-
bly, some regard for economy in either cas-
5 the conclusion is equally sensible.
: Not for Joseph, might have been the re
] mark of Joseph Dixon, who was the favOre,
g sutton for the hand of a young lady in Rusl
county, Indiana. He had in Edwin Colburi
= rival who tried the effect of strategy. 4
: Joseph was returning to his home, from
r visit to the lady. last Sunday night, a ghos
appeared to him and solemnly warned hin
! not to visit her again. The youth was badl,
frightened, but had nerve enough 10 draw
e pistol and fire it with such effect as to brin
Edwin, the ghost. down with fractures
knee.
K An enterprising Texas journalist undertook
y to establish newspaper in an Indian town
' The local reporter, in describing a pow WOW
4 Of Of Tha I'D
: scalped him. The editor found fault witt
= the proceeding. Next day posse of Indian
went and scalped the whole Office. There
n no paper published there now.
0 The Pioneer Coursing Club of San Francis
0 co has accepted challenge to run eigh
S dogs, simply as trial ofspeed, on condition
that the dogs shall pay their own expenses.
2 To defray expenses the defeated dogs vii
: probably sell themselves to the sausage max
ers
The commercial journals of London, Eng.
Z comment upon the excessive imports c
Z American wheat and -four during the pas
year, the receipts Of wheat from the Unite
States for 1869 having aggregated $500, 90
!, quarters-more than for any previous year
t People in this country who object to lsdie
acting as medical practitioners will lear
:, with a shudder that Miss ELIZABETH GARRET
= has been appointed one of the visiting phys
clans of the East London Children's Hospital
England. On the other hand, people VIII
! are not the victims of obsolete prejudice
will be glad to hear that sphere in whic
women can be so useful-that OFFS doctoring
as well as nursing children-has been fairl
l. opened in the metropolis of Great Britain
Of Nelv York Times
" Who that has seen dangerous diseaI
ID arrested by an able physician or good met
icine but values both? Be it your fami