Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-08

day and Friday, January 81, 90 and %. "A
programme of the exercises viii be given
in our columns next week. All teachers
who can 90 will find the occasion profit
able one.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET Tuesday.
The market was firm and offerings limited.
Common to fair, 90 to 80; medium to
good, % to 35; choice, 35 to 50; selections,
80 to 40c.
Lyman Kittredge of Walden, was badly
hurt, recently, receiving a severe cash I'M
der his chin There is some doubt ex-
pressed as to the way it was done, some
thinking it case of attempted suicide, and
the Kittredge family being quite reticent
as to the affair.
Mrs Margaret Stinehour died at High
gate Center on the 2lst. She was nearly
eighty years of age, and married Henry
Stinehour sixty years ago. They kept
hotel at Highgate that was famous through
all the region. Since her husbands death,
six years ago, she has kept the house, as
sisted by her two daughters, and none who
have ever stopped there, wonder at the
reputation this most remarkable of all
country hotels had attained.
A Mr.. Reed of Chester was probably
fatally injured lately while engaged in
saving wood, having contracted to do the
buS;paSc f,,. ba u ail (omnapX-
in that vicinity He was crushed in Il
fearful manner, and ut last accounts his
life was despaired of.
The Troy Wing says Prof Weber will
accept the call from the First Presbyterian
Church of that city, provided it is unani-
nous. The salary is $1,000 per annum.
/ Charles Wilson, grand chief engineer of
the brotherhood Of locomotive engineers,
who has taken such noble stand against
MIA, aud some parts of the West, Is Il ma
tive of Montpelier.
Mr. Alexander Agassiz, the only son of
the late distinguished naturalist, according
to the Boston T'rdnScript, inherited in a
marked degree the ability and the taste
for patient, thorough investigation pos
sessed by his father.
CHIEF Observation-Disclosures the President
went to the capitol and had a conference
with many senators on the subject of Will
liams confirmation. He was then first
made aware of the great opposition, and
If some of the charges, and it is said he
intends to withdraw the nomination.
Is PROHIBITION FAILURE?- the Bos-
ton Journal of the 9TH, is a report of DR..
Miners remarks on the question which has
failed in Boston, prohibition or civil gov
eminent. The Rev Doctor claims that
it is the latter.
The bar liquors at the Parker House
were seized two or three days ago and it is
possible that under n change in admins
tration, the State Constabulary may be
sent after the leading offenders. rs well as
after the lower sellers.
The engineers strike ut the West has
failed completely. and it Is now apparent
that the general reductions on the Pen
nsylyania and New Jersey Central rail
roads will be accepted by their employees
without resistance, though perhaps there
will be an appeal to arbitration in some
cases.
State nominating conventions will b,
held a follows; lRepublican, of Connect
cut, in New Haven. February II; Prohi-
bitionists, of Connecticut, in New Haven
january l5 Republicans Of New Hamp
shire, in Concord, January :: Democrat
of New Hampshire, Jan. 5.
The State Grange lately organized in
New Hampshire, is expected to take a par
in the political canvass in that State. pro
vided none of the other parties suit them
The other parties are consequently " look
: ing sharp"
, 1t is noteworthy. saysthe Boston Trans
crjpt that just forty years after Caleb Cusl
l ing published his "reminiscences c
; Spain he was appointed United State
= Minister To Madrid.
The Spanish frigate Araples is an un
lucky craft After being blockaded 70
I several weeks by 4 coal barge, she float
out of the dock only to get stuck in tn
mud. If ever she gets out of New \ or
Bay, we imagine she will not be in
: hurry to get back.
5 Recorder Hackett of New York refuse
II to have the minor offices in his court di
= tributed by the Tammany committe,
This presumptuous man actually says h
shall not obey the ukase from the grea
It wigwam of Fourteenth street. What
h New York coming to?
IS Ralph Keller, special correspondent
a of the New York Tribune, mysterious
disappeared from the steamer CienfuegC
on the passage from Santiago de Cuba
Manzanillo. and nothing has since bee
&c heard of him. 1t is thought he fell owe
- board. Keller was an Ohio boy, left hon
:. and became u wander erearly, travelling
II newsboy, clog dancer and the like.
~ 1862 he started for Europe with Slo1, al
III made the tour of it. He returned and b
le came quite noted as correspondent
Is Ercry SATURDAY, The Tribune, dc.
al Canada gives currency to Il story of {
n, Indian patriarch who retains all his alb
rs riginal vivacity at the age of one hundr'
n, and thirty two, and notwithstanding tn
n. his specie is 10, numerous papers quote Il
IS copper centcnarian above old Parr. N.
n World.
IN Hon. Shakespeare Caldwell, former
% member of Congress from Louisville, X,
n but now of New York, turned over to t
/. poor of Louisville on Christmas day. Il
handsome building for hospital purpos
" which he had erected at a cost of $50, 90
: to be called the hospital of st. Mary al
!, St Elizabeth, which is to be under t
lie charge of the Sisters of Charity, but to
J. open for reception of patients of every q