Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-17

came up behind him and dealt him a mur-
derous blow with cooper's hammer, frac-
turing his skull, but not depriving him of
his senses. He rushed from the house to
a neighboring police station, leaving his
wife alone with their three children
Officers Immediately proceeded to the
house, when it was found the insane wo-
man had also murdered her children,
Maggie, little girl of seven, James, four,
and Timothy, two years old-pounding
their heads to a jelly with a fiat-iron.
Her husband cannot survive his injuries.
He had been on a strike for some six
weeks, in obedience to the orders of the
coopers' union, and the family had suffer-
ed many deprivations in consequence,
which led to frequent contentious between
the man and wife, Mrs. Dewire constantly
urging her husband to return to work.
She was an inmate of a lunatic asylum,
about year ago, but was then supposed
to have been cured.
Cincinnati is stirred up, says the Cleve-
land Lca1er, by the return home of Mr..
Probasco, the wealthy and liberal gentle
man whose generosity secured the endow-
ment of that city with the finest bronze
fountain in America. Mr.. Probasco has
been abroad for year past and has re-
turned with the idea of establishing in
Cincinnati Metropolitan Art Museum, or
cabinet something in the same vein as the
South Kensngton Museum of London,
though, of course, on a smaller scale. 1t
is thought probable that Mr.. PrObascO will
give as nucleus for this institution his
own magnificent collection of paintings
and statuary valued at 100000, which has
long been among the chief attractions of
Cincinnati and the wonder of eastern
travellers, who have been surprised to find
in the suburbs of western city a villa
and an art collection rivaling, if not sur
passing, the princeliest homes of the At
lantic states.
4 PERSONAL AND ITS LUDICROUs RESULT.
"A young lady named Edith Hyland of
New York, arrived at Omaha, Nebraska,
on the 23d ult, with Il full and elegant
bridal outfit. to marry man named Bruce
Adams. of Wyoming Territory. She had
corresponded with him a short time, the
acquaintance originating in a personal adj
vertisement which appeared in Il we'll
known Eastern literary periodical. An
engagement of marriage was entered into,
and the silly girl went on to fulfill it. She
did not like the appearance of her husband
elect, however, and very sensibly declined
to take any further steps in the direction
of marriage. Sending to New York she
obtained funds, with which she returned to
her home. wiser girl, we hope, and with
an experience that ought to guard her
against those iniquitous advertisements,
which are simply traps for the unwary. A
fitting sequel to the affair was made by the
arrest, a few days later. of the man Adams,
-Ir hal ,,,1i hof tI,a Init ol
States District Court in Iowa, for rObbing
post office in Vinton, Iowa, in 1871.
The will of John Edgar Thompson. late
president of the Pennsylvania railroad,
has been admitted to probate. After
providing for his wife, two sisters, niece
and nephew, trustees are to appropriate
the remainder of the net income of the
estate, after the payments specified, or so
much of it us may be iudiciously applied
thereto, to the education and maintenance
of the female orphans of railway employees
who may have been killed while in the
discharge of duty. Preference is to be
given, first, to orphans of the employees
engaged upon the Pennsylvania railroad;
second. to those Of the Georgia railroad,
between Augusta and Atlanta, Ga. third
to those of lines controlled by the Penn
svlvania railroad. by lease or otherwise;
| fourth, to those of the employees of any
other railroad company of the United
States of America The estate is valued
at S2,000,000.
The total cost of getting Mr.. Arthur
Orion comfortably apprenticed to the tail
ors trade in Millbank prison is now stated
in round numbers at tl47 900, or 1885,
! OO0 OF this enormous sum, $1,000
| falls upon the Tichborne estate, and the
trustees have petitioned Parliament for
! leave to raise money on a mortgage. The
expenses to the treasury, as already men
toned. foot up in the near neighborhOOd
of 1915 900. of which Mr.. Hawkins, Q. c.,
and his learned brethren got a little over
$4,000. No wonder that the London
NetcS, pondering these figures, likens the
descent of OrtOn upon England to that of
''some ogre of legendary fame" and
mournftlllv reflects that g half dozen of
the greatest sovereigns n-czars and such
might have been entertained in London
for months without anything like the same
amount of cost and waste.
\ PRETTY BIG EDUCATIONAL PROJECT
is all at once unfolded to an ignorant
world by Boston paper of recent date
being nothing less than the immediate es-
tablishment in that state of n university of
modern languages. Belleville, in the town
of Newburyport, is the place where the
new institution is to be located, and the trus-
tees, who, it seems. held meeting in
Boston recently, have decided to erect
the necessary buildings ut once, and, in
deed, work on one of them is already
commenced. 1t is proposed to have an
lich Tt 7uH
NAV be instructed in our own language
and, in separate buildings, IL European
department, devoted to instruction in the
languages of Europe, and an Asatic de-
partment, where people can study Arabic,
Chinese, japanese, etc
THE TRANSMISSION OF SOUND THROUGH
THE ATMosPHERE.-A series of interesting
experiments recently made in England
with guns fog horns and other noisy in
struments, enables Professor Tyndall to
say that water in Il vaporous form min
gled with air is the real enemy to the trans
mission of sound, and this may exist on
days of surprising clearness. 1t was dem
| onstrated that fogs do not possess the power
: of sitting sound hitherto ascribed to them
On one occasion the melting away of q
fog was succeeded by state of acoustic
turbldlty. VI all u1e instruments exam
ined, the "syren" seems to be the best fol
! transmitting sounds great distances, al
: though at times an eighteen-pounder CUR
! possessed superiority over all other signals
employed.
George Cheney, the gate-keeper at th'
g ill-fated reservoir, is going to be put OF
!, exhibition, along with the horse on which
4 he took his swift ride down the valley tx
: Williamsburg. l.. j. Hobbs, of Holyoke
< has bought the horse and engaged tn,
t man. and proposes to exhibit them in
0 tent, beginning probably in Connecticut
: next week. The horse, which was for