Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-05-19
News and Gossip.
He is a Jewell.

Five millions of the $40; have beer called /" p'
Secretary Bristow
Kaiser Francis Joseph has returned 10 ''ehii'
from his Italian trip
Cardinal Antonelll is seriously i'll with brisn'
disease of the kidneys.
yice.President wilson says he meets with nun
nq Int kindness in his travels.
porpdon will make a second attempt to SWIM
across the channel on the 18th inst.
Thomas Biddle United states minister to Ecua
dor. died at Guayaquil on the 9TH INST.
f,b,r,otte Cushman made her farewell appearance
on the stage at the Globe, in.Boston, SATURDAY
Tho Fisk university jubilee singers, coioteu'
o;,o1 s,turlay. for a second tour through Great
Britain.
, >-,, yorr Seventh Regiment has chartered
- s,,a,rar Newport, to convey them to Boston on
the 10Th of June
New York gamblers are selling pools OF 'he II
.on reocber verdict with odds in favor OF the disi-
greement Of the jury.
Gov. Graver OF Oregon has callet special e'e0
ton to fill the vacancy caused by the death Vi 00
gressman George A. LaDo".
Albert Smear of Rockland Ne, while drunk, last
Er,d,v nj rht shot his wife twice, severely wouhu
inc her. and then blew out his own brains.
1esse d. Bright, ex-Unitei states senator from
Indiana is living dangerously ill at his residence
in Baltimore, with rheumatism of the heart
Another magazine is out of the fell S;ribner'S
of New York having swallowed up OH anu New
bv apurchase of the COOL will AMI subscription
list.
Hans Christion Anderson received the git from
tho children of America, lcr5 of his m trVelou'
story h,o.s on the very IN )rnln5 OF his seventeen
birthday.
The middle divis ion of the Erie canal Is nearly
filed with water and boats cmmencei locking
Monday night. The entire DIVISION IS III pet'ef
condition than ever before.
The customs authorities have brought suit aga
INST Charlie, l.. Lawrence, the silk snu5slir, for
Al 1866 40 the amount Of duties which n deirind-
ed the government of IN New York.
1t is whispered that the trafh; will 81 for
secretary Bristow', scalp. If public sentiment
ever allows il, the trath y will be at hDe'ty To
presery. it in crooked whiskey."
Another the Wharton party of Black hills min :
crs numberin. A. mea, wagons and ;! horses
who left sioux CITY, spell ago, and had got within
SO miles of Iarnev's peak, have been arrested by
the troops aud brought into Fort Randall
Burton participated in 4 spelling match at Hartford
Wednesday evening, the prizes beng offered by
Mark Cen Hawlev went down on trisvllable
Marx Twain on challron, and Burton on c.lic pes
one of the ; .hillel's OIL has informed the
CORES ponIent of the 50 ttftrf thai many persons
On h,:.rl the steamer Were drunk when she struck
and that several iiremen an mlny steerase Pas>eH
gers lay helpless until they were swept away by
the
The railroad war still goes on and the Il Gilmore
,nl ono roal has brought down the passenger
rate between Chicty, AMI Pittsburgh from twelve
20 seven dollars The Penn-y lvant rnal, le- see
of the Pitt-burg1, Fort wayne AMI Chicago, has
come down to $50
tits now stated on 600 authority that there il
not a shallow oftruth IN the statement which has
gone the rounds Of the Boston daily press to the
.n.ct III 1t the Bunker Hill Monument Assertion
contemplate the presentation of the monument and
-.ounls to the city of Boston.
Miss Ellen y George, the victim of the terrible
stevens TRAGEDY, was again brutallv assaulted At
her home IN London, II, by a drunken fellow
named Sargent. from whom She escaped with inju-
RES which 1t Is believed will DESTROY her reason,
already shaken by the first terrible afiir. The
Sailant is under rrest.
lionaire recently deceased, gives not cent to a
relative. bur bolueathel 5000 each 10 the Ger
man Protestant ASv1um AMI German Catholisl
A.vlrm, AMI $4,000 t. the Society Of National
Hstotv AMI the remain Ter of his property TO his
partners L. and +. Hoffman. The VIII is likely 10
be contested.
Mr.. John ID. Philbritk, ex Superintendent of Eos
ton schools, has become agent of the Na>sachu
sets Board Of Eldrltion, an he Will begin his
service in that capacity after having fulillel
-a-ement in connection with the National Bureau
Of Education to aii in making arrangements for
the eiu .ationll department OF tn. Centennial E1-
position al Philadelphia
The ol l-f,shpael a1l thrifty ltrle town of
ireen>bur-, Pa, SitIr Inv, calebrlt Il the cen
tcnnial oftle II An lstpyn i. .ltra,ioa Of lepen-
lence. in the true inka2 style, with profIse de-
oratIons o blntil- An evergreen. sllutes m 1rn-
ing, noon AMI night, military parade, AMI a mass
meeting presided over by senator Cameron. and
ai dressed b. Eislr owen, wlo gave the grafton
Of the day. anl by Gov. IL .rtrlnit, LIEUT.. GOV
Laitt AMI others.
The agitation among dealers in petroleum contin
ues N regard to the new combination formed for
the purpose of controlling the pro luclion refining
tr inspiration an / sale of The oil. rh. Contra
Association of Reiner-,' as the new combination
= termed. IS making every efpr- II pesrc- its or
gan Z atom. The arbitrary acton OF the pipe com
pln'es in refusing II deliver -blr-e" oil has pro
v'kel mitigation among the oil pro lucerS AMI
leaders olt>lt, - tn - npn ttip1. AL there i
every prospect Of a bitter litI-atipn
Young -raSSh'pPerS a-e svarm.n, il tn, south
ern tier of the e. Intj., ii \ p-l-ll. u.-tlI
SPECIAL from Eichtri-on cpuntv saws that the
sra~~hoppers are sweeping everything green in
that County. The Kansas CITY AMI Northern Rail-
r"a repo + that the fr -ht trains on the ROAD
We're ba lily DELAYED hv -ri>>hoDprrs On the track
rea ierins ii almost imp t-SIble II make up grades
Fley are dong terrible itnI,e Il th,. wheat an
vat crops. a well a gtrl.l>. Di-,olra-in- r..
ports are coming in from all parts OF the country.
gang of rui ms supposed t, Ice the Jam,. ami
the Younger brothers whp htv, >,.t,l their diff
terenrcS and are aS lin operating tp-ehrryi>itri 4
country store standing alone on the prairie II
miles north OF Clinton, No, Thurs Law last
for ed party Ofei-ht gentlemen AMI llIies VIII,
wers playing croquet on the lawn in the rear of
the store, to 70 inside AMI then, while three of the
robbers stood guarl the fourth relieved the partv
the store keeper. AMI the of all portable val
uables TO be found, after which the robbers coouv
mounted their horses AMI rode away
\ Little thrceyear old son of Mrs. Ritter of Pat
tti>o y. >. nil I most miraculous esc1pa
saturday. Getting in front of an approacninr
freight tram when IT WAS too late t. stop it. he WAS
struck. thrown some distance and ,iSappeared
under the cow-catcher. The locomotive and sevcn
cars passed. over the place where he was struct
before the train could be brought 10 n Il n1-Sti'I
and the engineer, going To the spot was surpriscl
not only To fin the chill alive. but scarcely lpiur
ed, except some very slight bruises about the head
How the child passed unler the cow-cafcher fire
box and freight car brakes without being ground
to at ms, is an ineNplIcable mystery.
An interesting lawsuit has just been decided nj
Wilmington. Del. when the possession OF n la,re
property turned on the decision of the question
whether n baby which indiSputablv dead. =
few minutes after it was born, had, during those
few minutes, suf :ient life to give.t a Legal ex:st
ence, If YES, the share of its mother (who diaJ in
the confnemenD IN ner fathers es tat, reu,ino1
with her husband during his lfe-time if no. !. won,
10 hcr brothers. On the one hanl if apnearo3 thu,
the baby's heart hal certainly beat n few timas. on
the other that there sign of bre,thinc, ,b,,
all efforts to:establiSh respiration soon f,IIe an,
that the attending phys ian had ,lescril,o, Tho