Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-06-01
News and JOftingS.

The French cable between ST. Pierre and
Duxbury is broken.
Smallpox is increasing terribly in Paris.
1t is announced that the Empress Eugene
will make visit TO Denmark during the
coming summer.
Symptoms of Bohemian agitation for
enlightenment are apparent in Vienna.
a drought prevails in England, and is
seriously affecting the crops.
One marriage out of every nine and
fraction in Connecticut last year resulted
happily in divorce.
The paternal Fisk is said to have applied
for commission as major general in his sons
command.
a fearful condagration destroyed fifty
buildings in Constantinople.
The Viceroy of Egypt has ordered the
lands bordering on the Suez Canal to be sold.
he TO receive ne-half of the proceeds and the
Canal Company the other half.
The EmperOrs of France and Austria and
the King of Prussia are to be in Germany
during the Summer.
The rebellion in Northern China is said to
be increasing.
Rosecraus urges that Congress shall assure
Mexico of our firm sympathy and moral
support.
The Presbyterian General Assembly, in
session in Philadelphia, debated and laid on
the table Monday resolution approving of
President Grants Quaker policy towards the
Indians.
Mary Written, with numerous aliases. a
famous pickpocket, was committed FOR trial
in Boston yesterday in default of $4,000
bail.
The Rochester Post-ofice was robbed on
S S Rh exc hqaard erg E is
clue to the thief
The La Sale coal miners, who have been
on strike since the lst of April, resumed
work the lst of June, having accepted the
terms offered by the owners
A county womcn's suffrage association has
been organized in St. Louis, No, to act a.
auxiliary to the State association. An exec
utive committee has been chosen, including
some OF the most prominent citizens of St
Louis.
Rev. DR.. Newman of Washington is to
preach on polygamy at Salt Lake City, by
special request Of Brigham Young.
The health Of Chief Justice Chase is said
to be failing 50 rapidly TO render probable
his retirement from tie bench.
News from General Hancock, now in Da-
kota Territory, indicates that tie is making
such disposition Of the United States troops
IN that region as viii best protect the settlers
from Indians
The Russian government Is making ar
engagements To build Il church in New York
city, where services are to be conducted ac-
cOrding TO the Greek form of worship. This
will be the first church for such a purpose
ever erected in this country.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, in session in Louisville. adopted an
important resolution. declaring that they
must purge themselves of error IN regard to
political utterances deliberately pronounced
year after year, AMI which, in their opinion,
was a sad betrayal of the cause and kingdom
of their common Lord and Head
\ Detroit hotel has a belle disguised as
bell-hoy.
VIM. Stark, .he New Hampshire bucolic
poet, s become stark mad.
The King Of Sweden Is going 10 see with
his own eyes whether the world Is really
round
Bismarck is recommended by his physicians
TO come 70 America and try the Croton wa
ter.
\ quadroon girl, Miss Kate Jennings, has
been appointed clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment.
Smithsonian Institution, Is about 70 visit
Europe for scientific purposes.
The chronological King Of Bavaria is
warned that If he ezpends 50 much exertion
in hSnting- for bugs, he viii be forced To- take
to his bed.
Commodore Cpshur has been sentenced to
be publicly reprimanded for corrupting in
n0cent Congressman ID the naval cadetship
business.
Two more heartless men are going to
jeopardize the life of another Newfoundland
dog in an attempt to cross the Atlantic in
tweuty-toot yawl boat.
1t is announced that ~ lawn - sun-b0nnets
are to be the fashion at the seashore this
summer than which anything more incon-
gruous could scarcely be imagined.
Connecticut is to refer all petitions for fe-
male suffrage to a committee of bachelors
and widowers, who viii respectively disagree
on the subject to the end OF time.
Mrs Harriet NJ. Wilson, wife of Senator
Wilson, died at her residence in Natick Sun
day afternoon, of cancer in the stomach
aged 40 years.
The projected China cable is to run via the
Sandwich Islands, and Yokohama, 10 Shanc-
hal and It's length, including the allowance
of twenty per cent. for slack viii be 9,l2l
miles.
A San Francisco dentist meeting a delin-
quent debtor on the street, choked him till
he gave up his false teeth, and took them as
pay.
Philadelp hia has conquered the hackney
coaches, and has introduced coupes for pub
lie They hold two. and cost dollar an
hour
The lace trade in Europe is active this
spring on large orders from the United States
and Il new trade from South America
The evcrgrecns throughout Central Hi
nOis are dying in most provoking manner
from some unexplained cause.
An attendant upon the Eight-Hour Con
vention, at Boston, gave as an excuse for not
joining the League, that he had recently been
unable to find eight hours work to do.
Charles j. Folser and Charles Andrews
are the Republican Judges for the new Court
of Appeals. The official figures from all
but FIVE counties give -Folger l33 ,472 votes
Andrews, l3l ,729; Mason, l30,7I5; Hale,
Us, S2S.
Considerable excitement was caused at
West Point on Tuesday by the arrival of the
colored appointee for the Mississippi cadet
ship, Michael Howard. He is a pure Atri-
ana wksr uDfig v6"5 'seeK a6taII. 1jI d e6Siored
family living at Highland Falls.
The graves of the Union soldiers at Mag
nolia Cemetery were decorated Monday. Sew
eral thousand persons were present. Pro
mincnt Republicans delivered speeches in
which the cultivation of friendly feeling be-
tween the North and South was urged.
The Judiciary Committee of the United
States Senate have recently reported upon a
netition from Rhode Island relating to the