Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-01-04


The remains of the notorious Kit Burn
were buried on Friday in Calvary Cemetery
1t is said he is to have no other epitaph thar
q Kit Burns
Greeley, commenting on the portion OF thu
report Of the Commissioner Of Agriculture
regarding 'stocks for grated cherry trees
says that's all nonsense anyway putting
stocks upon cherry trees they won't hole
up their heads any better, and besides stock
are out of fashion.
A Duluth man had a wagon-tongue driven
clear through him, and it took three men TO
pull it out, says the local paper whereupon
a Detroit journal briggs of citizen of that
village who got a wagon tongue into him
wouldn't bother any one to pull it out, anc
carried it for years in his body, till it worked
out of one of his toes.
At recent lecture in New York, a little
widow with a very attentive escort was so
forcibly reminned of the deceased lchabod
that she dampened her handkerchief and her
lovers ardor with so many tears that she
can safely charge that discourse with setting
her back three months in her counting.
Mrs Muchmore, Of Cincinnati, wants a
divorce from her husband, because he never,
in 10 years Of welded bliss. bought her any
clothes except pair of cheap shoes, and
because she had To fish for living while he
drank whiskey out Of brittania teapot.
She don't intend to live that way Muchmore.
THs United States Patent Laws, with in
structiOns how to obtain Patents, is the title
of work Of ll2 pages, sent to US by MUNS
L Co., b Park Row. New York IL also
contains the official ruler, forms for patent
deeds, hints on selling patents, 50 diagrams
of mechanical movements and large variety
ff az Ia lnafll inf II IL. hook
really worth having, and can be had free by
all who VIII send their names to Mes'rs
MUSN ( Co. a. above.
A Young rhyning correspondent of the
Louisville COurisr-.I0uTHai asks s. Is it true
that there ia poetical inspiration in tea, cot
fee and such mild stimulants ~ Certainly it
II. There - the case of Edgar A. Poe for
instance. 4 little would have made Edgar
A Poet.
A German clothing dealer in Belfast, Me,
recently sold man pair Of boots. A few
DAYS afterwards the man returned with them,
and said that he went out into tho BARNARD
80 work where twas a little wet, and the
sJles came uH. u Mine Got, mine friend
YOU didn't ought 70 walk round to dem Dey
ish cavalry boots, made to ride NIT
\ few days ago a crowd Of ladies looking
at the dresses displayed on frames in the
show window of Boston dry goods stores
were startled by lean. sanctIm0ni0us-l10k-
ing siN-looter Of the genus homo elb0wlnE his
way among them. and who after moment s
gaze at the dresses on exhibition, slowly 49,
hloquzed in a sepulchral tone: =. Yes, YES !.
like them ALL All show all false, stuffed
and padded No head, no brains, no mind ,
all show just like them all
: An ARRAY occurred at Fl Paso, on the tn
ult., in which Judge j. ). Clarke of the
25fh Texas District was shot dead 1v b. f.
Williams, a lawyer, while fleeing from arrest,
and who WIS 10 return shot and instantly
killed by Capt. French, ot the State police
In the beginning of the quarrel Williams
fired twice at Senator Fountain, and severely
wounded him.
\ new ticket printing machine. which ma
just been patented IN England and Prussia.
prints railway tickets on both sides. per.o-
rates them, and number, them cJnsecuIyclte
by one process, and does all TINS al the rate
OF two hundred minute.
Last week was pretty bad for fires. hat
TIN, week viii Doe worse ii the destruction
goes ON as IL has begun. vt Mlti!.n, Penn 3,
seventy buildings were burned on sunday,
and five STEAMBOATS, at New Orleans loss
OF S95o,00U.
The weather is intensely c,li n Montreal.
and the -lrighinL active with two feet depth
OF snow in the streets Wheels have given
place % runners there for nearly five weeks
past. Last wear there was "a foot Of snow on
the ground by the sth Of November.
The approaching marriage of Miss Lillian
Edgar,on ]. announced :. Whittier are we
drifting
\ gentleman iu Salem. Mas, once owned
a lot pf land near tile depot of the Eastern