Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-09-10
Foreign News.

ENGLANp.-The confirmation OF Benjamin
| Dieraeli. as rector of the University OF Glas
gov, takes place on the 18th of November.
FRAcrr.-The American residents of Paris
proposed to display the United States flag
| 10 honor of the proclamation OF the repuo-
lie, but the perfect strongly objected and the
project was abandoned.
The Minister OF the Interior has prohlbl'
ted the publication of the radical journal Lit
Psuple Sourerain because of articles IN 1t To-
citing disturbances and contempt for the
government.
The government has received notification
from Berlin that France having fulfilled all
her engagements, the occupation OF her ter
| ritory BY the German forces is legally ended
The evacuation of Verdun has begun.
N. Theirs, who is now at Lucerne, Swift
zerland, was called upon Wednesday, by the
French residents, and addressed them at some
length. He said that he had devoted his life
to the establishment of liberty in France.
He had endeavored to establish it under a
monarchy, but had not succeeded, and had
come to the conclusion that the one excludes
the other. He had therefore become re-
publican, and was resolved to devote the re-
mainder of his life to furthering the perma-
nent establishment of a republican form OF
government in France.
IrALY.-The pope is again indisposed.
SPAIN.-The situation in the field appears
to remain about the same, the government
making no great progress against either the
Carlists or the republican insurgents.
The Spanish Ministry have resigned. Cas-
telar requires as a condition Of his accept
ance of the presidency in place OF Salmeron
sl,k H. oil
portant and pressing measures are disposed
of, and then that it adjourn, which it should
b. able to do about the LIST of December.
organize the militia, impose loan and sus-
pend the constitutional guarantees when he
thought necessary. and the Cortes voted to
confer on him all these powers.
CASTELAR, was elected President of the Re-
public on the It'll, by vote in the Cortes
of 1873 to 81 for Pr y Margall. He pro-
poses to take measures for calling out over
nalf million of men to crush the Carlists
and rebellious republicans.
BEAU HICKMAN DEAD.-For more than a
quarter of a century, dating from about 1916,
one of the most noticeable objects of inter-
est in Washington was-in various phases o.
prosperity and adYerslsy-a singular geniu :
known as " Beau Hickman" During the
whole of the period extending from the be-
ginning of our troubles with Mexico to his
death be was as we'll known, not only to re-
sidents but to visitors, as the Capitol itself;
and it was his boast that he had been on
terms of intimacy with every respectable
member of Congress from Webster and Clay
down to the time when respectablity in
Congress was the exception and not the
rule.
Robert Singleton Hickman, as he was
known, was born in Maryland about 1913
After a wild and dissipated career in all
rarts of the country, but mainly in the
South, Hickman drifted to Washington,
and there he developed a most extraordinary
passion for dress, his chief ambition being
to shine as the flop of the day. He became
an adept in personal adornment, and being
easy and graceful in manners, and possessing
some means which he disbursed with liberal
ity, he soon occupied the position OF the
American Beau Brummel, and assumed that
worthy's title with all due dignity. He
hobnobbed with all the great men OF his day
who were given to sensual pleasures-and
there were few up to twenty years ag) VINO
were not-and numbered among his regular
and occasional companions In the debAuch
and at the gaming table some of the bright
est ornaments OF the Senate and the
House.
But the time came when he could no
longer shine but in borrowed plumage, and
Beau became the walking advertisement OF
the fashionable taiors and the stool pigeon
of the gamblers. Little by little he went
down in the scale, and when old age began
to creep upon him he was frequently depend
eut for the necessarics of lite upon the |
maid servant OF the hotels and upon the |
charity of strangers whom he levied upon
with cool impudence that was always IRE
sistible.
Beau Hickman is dead. A week ago the
poor wreck, the victim OF a wasted lite, was
stricken with paralysis. On Saturday he
was removed to the hospital, and Monday |
he breathei his last.
His real name was unknown, his family, /
supposed to have been one of the wealthest |
in Mary land OF Virginia, having sent to him
a stipulated sum every year on condition that
he would keep their secret. He never told
any body even the name Of the place where |
he was boru, and nobody ever knew where he
lived in Washington until one night in LDu-
Isiana avenue fire turned hun into the
street with his wardrobe In his arms. Free
Queutly dt Tue w dsnInStUn udTs. WuIle up
ping glasses with the politicians, he said it
was a poor city that couldn't support him
like a gentleman, and 1t was his intention to
make Washington support him and he did,
even to the extent OF levying % cents from
each OF the young bucks of the town, and
larger sums from the larsei animals. For
the last lew years OF his life. having been
afflicted with inhammatory rheumatism, he
made no use whatever of Intoxicating liquors.
.Rutland Globe.
TYPE WRIrING,-8v way of correcting a
statement in our columns as to type-writing
machine lately patented, it is due to the pa
tentee to say that he expects to print $50
words per minute under favorable circumstln-
ces, and IS to 100 words per minute a. an
average speed for days work. The mocha
nism is very simple. is firm and direct in it's
action, takes regulated impression with
ink like an ordinary printing press. prints
four letters at a time, leaves the print in
sight at once, and requires but two move
ments of the machine per second to print 100
words of average length per minute. The
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