Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-09-08
News and Gossip.

news Ill II uOSSIps
Senator Jones Of Nevada is IN Connoc ticui, visit
ing W it'll his wife.
William Craig water color artist, was drowned
in Lake George the 9Th
Ida Lewis rescued another man from drowning
in Newport lower harbor the 10th.
There are eighty thousand pending applications
for pensions in the pension Office at Washington
a Canadian journal, with pure disinteres tedness,
| recommends as paper for every family the Light
| ming Fly Paper.
| Attorney General Plerrepoint will instruct the
district attorney to vigorously prosecute the old
sale robbery case.
a Madison county tOhio) Granger comes it over
the thronging book and insurance agents by play
| ing off as hired man"
Mr.. James 7. Fields of Boston has been engaged
TO deliver a course of lectures on English I.tera
| ture at Williams College.
| Specials from New Hampshire and Maine report
sunday the hottest day of the season. At Bangor
the mercury touched loo in the shade.
Large discoveries of gold are reported to have
been made in the Black Hills, and there is CORES
pondmg excitement among the miners.
We are solcmnly assured that a sea-serpent
chased a boat ashore on Lake Mcmphremagog, and
| then chewed II up (ihe boat, the other day.
| Fitz John Porer's friends talk OF appealing to
Congress for review of his case, that the wal
department has decided II can do nothing Tor him.
Postmaster and Editor Thacher of IIornellsville,
y Y, has sued the Trrlne of that place for $1,000
damages for saying that he had taken illegal post
hge.
y SouN CITY, la, boy, being bitten by n rattle
| Il, No
rately chopped of the wounded finger, and saved
his life
Mr.. Robert Dale owens health, according TO n
| In annapolis newspaper, is greatly Improved, and
his physician anticipates his entire recovery at an
early day.
| darkey didn't save drowning boy at Nicks-
burg the other day, because "dis yere is my last
paper collar, and de boy was kicking water Ike
| alligator
| One hundred and sixty yealling Merino bucks of
! unusual value have juet been shipped from Yer
mont 10 Texas, many Of them being worth $1,000
and upward each.
Vine and women were what ruined Sooy, the
defaultinS state treasurer of New Jersey; after
ong life of usefulness and honor, he took to hard
drinking and RIGHTEOUSNESS in his old age.
Jtr Davis speaks At The Fulton No far to- law
and the association expect 1000 people to hear
him. He Will be at Kansas City all through next
week, which is fair week, and deliver his address
on Tuesday.
| 1t Is reported from Rome that Nonsg Ron
cctli, one of the papal ENJOYS who brought over
the Official notice of Cardinal McCloskcys adj
vancenent, is to be appointed to high eccesi-
astcal dignity in America.
GOV Peck has cc.n ..issioncd Preston Powers to
make a statue Of senator Collamer to be placed
in the capitol at Washington. The work orig
lnally assigned to Hiram Powers, his fathe-, but
| he died before entering upon it.
\ Kansas newspaper has its little joke at insui
ancc agents, in saying that mule there lately
| kicked one of them on the cheek, which unin-
jured, while the animals hoof was broken.
| The Sleeping Beauty in Forepaugh's Museum,
Montreal, was accosted by a son of Erin the other
day, and asked if it waren't about tine 10 get up
and appear civil to folks who come to see her.
\ young man in Lancaster sent a dollar t., n
firm in New York who advertised a receipt to pre-.
vent bad dreams. He received n small slip OF pa
per, on which was printed, " Don't go to sleep"
Poppies, oats, fruit blossoms, wild flowers aud
vines said to be the correct trimmings for large
| leghorn hats. These hats, though used for BOTH
are more appropriate for country than for city
wear
Miss Annie f. Johnson has been elected rrinci
pal OF the Bradford Academy, and has accepted the
| office. Miss Johnson has been principal of the
state Normal school at birmingham Mass for the
last nine wears.
Mr.. Il. VI. T. Hunter of Virginia, who, after hi 8
defeat IN the contest for the United States senator
ship, obtained the position of state treasurer 4
salary of 5 900 year. has afforded conspicuous
| example of integrity by dcvotng only ptance
of his salary to personal and turning over the
rest to his creditors.
Speaking of the shoes worn by Mr.. Sartors, Olive
Logan says, They are Enthusiastically English.
| If we ever have war with England, Sartoris will
have to conceal all traces of those shoes, or stand
convicted q Britshcr sheer as fate There's
nothing like leather; and them heels and toes are
so ceckney that if they could talk they'd drop
their his
Margaret Foley, the American scuptress at
| Rome was once employed In a Lowell factory
| One day, Walter White, the overscer, found her
whitiilng an acorn ont of chalk, and was so i'm.
pressed with tho beauty and accuracy of the de-
| sign that he persuaded her to leave the factory
and let him send her to school, and thus she Oh.
tanned her start
Long Branch was alive with notablcs, Saturday
bcoueH the olHclai neau OF the nation who, by the
way has concluded, owing to the hot weather. not
TO go back to Washington so early as was intended
a few weeks ago there were Vice President Wilson
secretary BriStow. Attorney Gene raj Plerrepont
Gen. Fnzhush Lee and delegation from Virginia.
| Gen. Quesada, Sir CHARLES Hartley, Baron and
Baroness IIillere, and II. l.. and Alexander Stuar,
of New York.
| Ii appears that jefferson Davis was not the first
love of the "nne bago County Fair managers bu,
that they made application TO the following some
success, before writing to him: Gen. w. T. Sher
man, Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, Henry Ward
I5eecler, Theodore Titon, Roscoe Conk lin Col
Robert Ingersol, the Hon. John Wentworth Scna
tor Morton of Ia'liana, iIoratio Seymour George "A
PendetOn, Charles Francis Adams, Carl Schurz
and Emery Storrs.
jor Edwards OF the 81. Louis Times and Col
Foster of the Journal started Saturday to settle
in duel, affair growing out of an editorial ly
Edwards on the action of the citizens of Winnie
bago county in refusing to allow jefferson Davis
to speak at their Fair, and rejoinier by Foster
casting very severe stI ictures upon the writer O.
the Times ticle. At the first shot each Tired over
| the others head, not Intentionally, though, and
Major Edwards, who the challenging party
demanded second shot, but Foster took refuge
behind the rules. which required the assent of botl
to a second shot, and declined considering tina,
he had given all the S ATS action required