Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-11-03
News and Gossip.
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canal.
Ju,es Ferry, the Frcuch radical, has married an
hciress
Worry cold weather and snow in the White noun
tains Friday.
Gounod, the composer fell down sI'rs recent!
aud fracture his shoulder
Mr.. Sturgeon intends to spend November anu
December in the South of France.
Salvint married an English lady in Florence
week or two ago. She is his second wiie.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, the distinguished
authorizes Will pa the winter in Florda-
The Harvard College students attempted 10 blow
mn University Hall with nitro. syccrine, Tuesday
evening
| According to Humboldt, IN acre OF bananas VIII
nro,lucd as much food for man as twenty five acres
of wheat.
Gold has been found in the valley of &c nee,
| near Quebec and mining operations Will be enter
ed on next spling
II Is nov den led that Gcral Massey is insane,
4 member of his family just over from knsla1d
being the authority.
London bridge is to be widene'l GA an average
600 900 foot passengers it, and more than 49,
900 horses, in a week
Ex-senator Matt. II Carpenter was so i'll IRON
lung difficulty that he was unable 10 take pant In
the Wisconsin canvass.
The Newark q. j. boald of education has adop
| ted a lule making vaccination condition for all
miss ION to the public schools
The khc.iive of Egypt has decreed that hereafter
the calendar used by Christian nations VII be usci
In that country instead of the Mohamme ian.
| lanes Ru, sell Lowe II has invented new beat
itude: Blessed they who have nothing 10
say, aud who cannot be persuaded 10 say ii.
| Rever,Iy johnson sails for England on bilei
| business trip GA Saturday, the 9Th of Move mber
lie will not return until the middle Of January.
,san Arab cllnys to his hon Sc, and an Ind ian
,u.-s TO the legends of his father, 50 do deaf men
| ru,, to the habit OF walking ON railroad tracks.
/ Do Lcwi.'5 trip around the world, an uhlfen'i-
! " commentator links, ought not TO cost INN over
81 or 81 30. If he can travel as cheapiy as ne can
eat
The queen gave Glrlstonto boy a cashmere
shawl for his bride when he got married. the other
dav and Albert Edward sent him 4 travelling
| CLOAK.
Homeopathy VIII DC trial with Lands, the
Vmeland murderer. no Will clam that If Cairuth
hal taken bigger pills and more OF en- he W'uii
have lived.
ter al Springfield, Ill, takes occasional short
walks upon The streets, and seems 10 be somewh.i
Improving.
Fx.>peaLer Blame has started tour OF the
British Provinces, accompanied by In, VILE, Miss
Mary \ Dodge Iail Hamilton, and the Hon
Eugene Hale AMI wife.
4 despatch fl"ln Berlin to The Lonlon Morning
Post report. that Archbishop Lcdochowshi VIII be
expelled fIom Germany soon aS his term oil I'M
pTI>onment expires.
\ person at Greenville, Tenn has captured
twenty-scven hawks by setting steel trap upon
the dead limb of a tree on which they have been III
the habit ofa!ighinS
The LONDON DAILY News publishes spec lal from
Vienna saving it Is reported that the Turks have
murlerel Sky Christians in Eihacz, fortified
town near he Dalmatian frontier.
Ex Treasurer spinner Is in doubt whether lie
ought 10 accept the present Of clock ten Tered hm
BY tie employees Of the Treasury Department, but
his gratitude Tor the git is just as deep
John polan, who was indicted for the murder al
James IL Noe, the Brooklyn bush IN tnuftc;urcr
WA, convicted, Wednesday, AMI sentence! 10 lie
hln-c.I, December u. The jdry were only ont l.
minutes.
NJ. Thomas Hardy. tie successful novelist, j.
soon 10 make his lirs; appearance poet. lie
has written provincial poem Of the West Country
OF about FL lines, called the " Fine at Trantcr
5 >weailey'> Wesser Ballad"
TIE monument to Mr.. Plimsol,. ". r., the sea-
m n l.Icnl VIII represent the rcfJmcr in the at
of delivering his famous prote It. In the back
ground will be the rotten hulk of a condemned ship,
over anI ar )unl which a.e lowering birds of ILL.,
omen.
The mother Of The Princess IIohenzolern SUP
ports a hos pital 1T New Wei by selling the famous
Wei dogs, the purcsi breed OF the :. Bcrnard>.
} The ftyoIite coor Is ficOp, with white marking.
They are soil at 50 each, and hnl ready
market.
woman cured her hu 81 lnl OF staying ont lie al
night 10y gong 10 the door when he came home ami
whispering through the key-hole. " l. that You,
Willie" Her husbands name i, John, and he
stays at homc now and sleeps with eye open
and a revolver under his pillow.
AIIAEp CAsE.-Thc fto-s are .son, down into
nine feet of WAGER this fall, AMI lining their
nest with ton batting, AMI laying in twice The
usual am amt OF coal. lou can look ont for
winter which viii bend shalc trees double, and
lrctz e the life ont OF hitchny posts.
one OF the sticct sensations IN New Orleans, last
week, the horse whipping Of 4 gay Lothai il by
an indignant married woman, whose acquaintance
he had attempted to form on the street. She made
an appointment with him and brou hit her husband
along 10 fair play VIII l. She whipped her in>o-
lent a,lmi CT.
Victor Hugo has not given up his residence
Germany. lie still retains possession of utute
vile House, AMI Will 1--we there part of the wear.
He has finished two poems rccenily-"Le Quartre
Vents de Esprit" AMI g La Fin de Satan" He
has not yet begun the second part of "Quatrc-
NnGt Tree"
y severe suow->torm prevailed two DAYS last
week at Cheyenne, \eb. and points west Of there
Communications by telegraph between Evanston
urecn River and Omaha was partially suspended
The storm extended, Friday, to Davenport, Ia and
along the Davenport All >t. Pal railroad WIS
80 severe that objects ha,f-mile a!c al could not
be seen.
To the wife of Judge Thomas J. Gum, who re-
sides TIRES miles south ,f Smithvlllc. IN this
county, on The road leading IRON >mithvIlle to Lib
clty, " ts born boy baby. the 2:th day of Sep
tender last, the mother being in the 9Th other
age The baby weighed eight pounds At the tim
Of Its 18th, and is hearty, We'll developed child
Liberty (Mo) Advance.
Mr.. J. E'lSar Thomson, lite president Of the
Pennsyv Railroad Company who died in MAY,
l>1i, LEFT portion of his estate, valued at over
| $1,000 600, for the education and maintenance of
female orphans of railway employees whose fathers
were killed while IN the discharge of their duties
There are claims against the estate which if allow ell
will prevent the carrying INTO effect the desire of
the teststor.
Was isaac Merritt singer a fair type of "pro-
grcssiyc American? lie was famous inventor
he made the Singer sewing machine He also
made mighty fortune fourteen million dollars of
which remain behind him. What more would Won
have? lie had five wives, and was divorced from,
all except one Is that enough? lie had u Ell i'd.
rem and he leaves them all his money. Was not he
a truly good man? What shall be said on his
+ toni, stone boston PUot
Wednesday last, Char cs Patterson shot and
killed Il. w. Porter, chief her Ter of Dos ers on The
North Platte, 80 miles north of Sidney, Neb, where
Patterson was taken uner arrest. Friday even
Ing The itil was prOken into by I moh of masked