Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-02-12

tho nae of man.-Rutland Courier,
The Poland Committee will soon report
Now that Ames is back again. they are
finishing up the testimony in the Collax case
The Wilson committee are busly at work
but as vet don't seem to have great success
fndin, where the large SUMS went to-
Want of space forbids notice OF testimony
before them.
The Caldwell investigation draws to
close. and Mr.. Morton will present MAJOR
itv report for expelling, him and Senator
Ca-nen.er one in favor of letting him retain
his scat.
Senator Edmunds and wife go to Europe in
March.
! Senator Cameron is ill.
Ames has returned to Washington with
his long lost book.
Ex Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, has
sailed for st, Petersburg, where he is to be
our minister. Cyrus w. Field is also OF for
Europe.
Ex-Goy. Matteson of H., is dead.
Hon. John P. Hale is a confirmed paralyt-
ic. and has softening of the brain. He can
not leave his room, and will not probably
live a great while. He is nearly % years
old
There is not vestige of the former man
left in Chief Justice Chase. His most lntl-
mate friends do not recognize him. From
} the handsome, smooth faced. pOrtly man. he
} has become a tall, thin man, with yellow
beard: his mind is clear. but his voice Is
weak and the thin lips culver from paralysis
He goes about, the ghost of his former SELL
4 Beecher goes west " for lecture tour Of
2 a month.
, O. W. Holmes makes TyndalfS prayer.
e guage plain by calling it in his simple ana
, terse Saxon, - the predatory ordeal as test
of supernatural interference with natura
laws
J.E. Murdoch aud John B Cough arr
t seriously i'll, and have cancelled all their en-
S gage ments.
h It is reported that General Burnside vii
c be appointed commander of the United State
) marine corps.
tt The election of President Smith, of Dart
mouth College, as its head, gives characte
to the new temperance movement IN New
, Hampshire, with a promise OF etl;'ent WORK
The widow of the late Secretary Stanton
is reported rapidly failing in health.
Mayor Havemeyer, of New York. denoun
II ces some of the reformers of bis city as me
lie who cheat the public by day. and each othe
d by night, at the gambling table. 1t is III
fortunate that there is not the scripture
number of righteous men in that metropoli
to save it.
! tx. Gov. John W. Geary, Of Pennsylvani;
died suddenly last Saturday. He was Ii
~ tie over fifty years of age, and had bee
Is prominently before the country for the Ia:
as eighteen years, as Governor of Kansas undo
ID Buchanan, as a General during the war, an
= since as Governor Of his native state.
ne The fiery Fitzpatrick having failed to owe
- throw Grant or get himself an Office, h'
settled down as Jersey hay dealer.
S.B. Conover Republican, was electt
United States Senator on the 3lst by the Flo
ida Legislature on the fifth ballot, p Dem
Gratis voting with the Republicans. lie 7
u ceived 43 votes.
D. Parepa is singing in opera at Cairo, Egyp
10 Charles Nordhoff is at the SandwiC
Id Islands.
in Froudes wife is daughter of the edit
y, Of the London Times, Mr.. Delane.
~ Nj. Theirs has long since passed the allo
or ted 'three-score years and ten we wi
- we could add that he had attained b
he majority.
r. Charles X. Pemberton, the Oldest LOGON
DIS tive engineer in New England, died Ia
he Satu rday evening at Great Falls. \ H.
-, Sir Stafford Northeote one # the trea
ms of Washington - high joints, is going
ef marry a Canadian belle, next summer.
il \ negro lawyer, John F. Charles, h
,iff been admitted to practice at Atlanta, Ga.
adj the first in the State.
he Miss Kate Fox, one Of the Fox sisters,
ma spirit-rapping notorlety, was recently ma
me ried in London to Henry Deidrich Jencke
,cd barrstcr. At the wedding there were '
ON rious spiritual kn0ckings, moving OF tabl
. I and the like. \ most commcndable reeC
to milton by the spirits OF their modern int
Try prefer.
az Prof Donaldson, an aeronaut of Rea iir
ao Pennsylvania, proposes to cross the ocean
en-, green Ireland next summer in a ballOo
n, time Il to 90 hours; if he succeeds he "
I'VE establish balloon mail and passenger Ii
e. The balloon is to be inflated with 26S,C
les feet of gas; the professor expands wth'
ms SO large quantity.
of The new President Of the Swiss Repub
is Paul Ceresole, who is only forty years
ted age lie IS the son of a clergyman OF
and Reformed Church, and has six brothers,
"A. of whom have in some way distinguish
themselves. He is a lawyer, and has b,
ton in active practice at Vevay since 1858
OF ess of switzerland speak warmly of
the aracter and abilities.
Us.
20, John II. Selwyn, whose real name
the hn Josephs, died in Philadelphia the i
S. was by birth Englishman. and
ed 81. His greatest success was as ma
- r, although he was a good actor.
:. Globe Theatre, Boston, formerly went un
a. his name, and he left Boston soon after
trouble with Fechter.
r The cOnteSting Of the (,reelPv W hrou