Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-08-31
News and JOttingS.
dent Grant is at West Point.

President Grant Is at west Point.
destructive fire has occurred at Calais.
Ne. many stores and 10 vessels having been
destroyed,
The first frost of the season occurred in
Maine on Friday night.
The steamer David Watts struck a snag
on the Mississippi River on Saturday, and
sunk.
The Government will purchase seven mil
lions of bonds and sell four millions Of gold
during September.
The Rabbi Michael Lansberger, a distin-
guished German scholar, is dead.
Mr. Goodwin Smith is talked of for the
presidency of the State University of Iowa.
Isaac N Keller has been appointed Sur
veyor of Customs for Albany, N. Y
According to the census returns, military
titles are hereditary in the Western States.
The President is expected to pay brief
visit TO Washington some day during the au-
tumn.
A large number of Irish field hands have
suddenly left Lancashire for Ireland, just at
the beginning of the harvest The circum-
stance excites fears that mischief may again
be brewing in Ireland
Cincinnati editor has been caught by
The State ProhibitOry Convention of Mass
has nominated Wendell Phillips for Govern
or of that state.
The Sandwich4slandersh have used up their
last bishop, and England won't give them
any more.
Miss Catherine Beecher is now principal of
the Hartford Female Seminary, with Mrs.
Stowe as assistant.
| Rev Mr.. Lord resigned the passionate of
the Main Street Methodist church, Paterson,
n. j. yesterday, in consequence of pending
charge of bigamy.
a Paris banker received from a Berlin
| banker remittance of $4,000, and a letter
thus worded: - The other "A 900 will be due
next month; | shall bring it with our troops
myself" He received as good as he sent in
this reply: g will endeavor to ameliorate
your captivity by all the means in my power. p"
The present Charles Dickens does not at all
resemble his father, but is quiet, reticent
man, about thirty years old, with heavier
features and rounder face than his father
He is an industrious worker, of excellent
Judgment and literary taste, and promises to
equal his father in the conduct of 80 All the
Year Round.
A dwarf woman, nineteen years of age, was
recently deserted by the side-showman of a
circus in Kansas, and would have starved on
ly for the kindness of the people, The ruff
fan had engaged to pay her S25 per month.
A wild cat attempted to take baby out of
its cradle in a cabin near MankatO, Mimi
but little black and tan dog attacked the
catamount and fought it until the mother
came in and drove the wild beast out with a
brand of fire.
The English government are busy removing
all the cannon and shot from the Notifications
of Quebec, and shipping them to England.
One ship-load has already been despatched
The crown Prince of Prussia, Frederick
William, who fought Marshal Mcmahon at
Weissemburg, is now in his thirty-sixth year
He married the Princess Royal of England,
and his eldest SON, young warrior of eleven
years, holds several commissions in the Prus-
sian army.
An enthusiastic German editor of New York
sent copy of his last paper, addressed to
King William of Prussia, at the Tuilleries,
Paris, with directions to the postmaster to
keep the newspaper in the Office, if the party
has not yet arrived, as he will be
there.