Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-08-18
DEFALcArION.-C. A. Church is under

arrest for a dcfalcation of $4,000 from
Jaffrey & Co.
Now is the time to carry out Sydney
Smiths ingenious suggestion, and take of
our flesh and sit in our bones.
Swimming is to be taught at the Holyoke
Female Seminary. Natation is said to be
proper there because its wimmins' work.
TIE INTERIOR DEPARTMENTAL Wash
ington dispatch says the President has Of
fered the Secretaryship of the Interior to
J. Russell Jones, with the request to pun
his all Indian frauds.
The New Orleans Times Dcm.) speaks
very highly of Gov. Kellogg's recent ap-
pointments of Judge Dibble. as Assistant
Attorney General. and Hiram r. Steele, as
Judge of the Superior Criminal Court.
Judge Steele is brother of the late Judge
b. H. Steele.
MURDERED: HUNG-John Webb, MUIR
derer, was hung at Knoxville, Tenn, Aug
10. He maintained wonderful nerve to the
last, and under the gallows continued to
affirm his. innocence. An immense crowd
from the surrounding country, estimated
at from twelve to fifteen thousand. wit
messed the execution.
Messrs Mooly AMI S,tnkey, arrived
in New York, by the steamer Spain,
on Saturday. Mr.. Moody has gone to hi.
old home in Massachusetts for recreation
and Mr.. Sankey will spend his vacation in
Pennsylvania. 1t is announced that they
will resume their evangelistic labors in
October, and that the beginning in this
country will probably be made either ii
New York, Brooklyn OF Boston.
A gloomy state of affairs prevails in
Cuba. Fighting continues with more or
less vigor. and the estate owners are il
| constant dread of raids from the insurgen
bands. The Treasury is empty. and :
leading official charged with misappropria-
ting 100000 in gold has been sent to
Spain. 1t is not surprising that Captain
| General Nalmaseda is dissatisfied, anC
makes the want Of troops Il preteXt for his
willingness to resign.
Sunday, at the Twin Mountain House
over 1000 people assembled to hear Mr.
Beecher. lie intimated that a tent holding
1000 people would be pitched before next
Sunday. He defended himself from thu
charge by another minister that hi
preaching on the Sabbath gave rise t.
Sabbath breaking excursions. In hi
sermon he contenlel that The kingdom o
God consisted not Of the outward form OF
organization but of the inward state o
mind, producing right living in JOY an,
peace.
Henry T. IIelmbold the former propri
etor of many patent medicines, and VIII
formerly kept large house on Broadway
n V, has been sent to m insane asylum
in Philadelphia. He recently returne
from Europe, and has been temperate,
stopping here. When in conversation, h
told wonderful tales of what he intcnde
to do in future and for Il man whose bu>i
ness has been wrecked. he spoke profound
; w confident On "Wednesday last tw
physicians examined him and pronounce
him ms inc They then made affidavit be
fore an Alderman, recting the result {
their examination, and on Friday DR.
Helmbold WAS removed to DR.. kirhll
; bridges asylum.
!, 1t was payday among the Penn>ylveni
! miners, Saturday. the first for 4 good man
; months to many of them, and the resu
> was very general indulgence in b'
whiskev, free fights and murder. Will
n Square Quvthcr was preparing to warral
/ for the arrest of 4 man named Love. :
Pottsvillc, he was shot and instantly kille
by two men through a window. Lo,
fled. At Shenandoah. the tiremen held
n picnic, and G. James, Il becr-Seller. W;
: shot dead by men who were drinking.
Mahoncv City. there was Il free fight
front of saloon. which was Quilted. N
y three men were shot and wounded. incl
ding the notorious bully, Bell, who W
70 taken to Pottsvillc jill. while Chrsti.
Burkowcr, who was standing on the pay
> ment. looking on, WAS fatally shot in t
e breast.
The BRITI>H PARLIAMENT PRORoGl
=. The British parliament has been pr
rogued until October Doth. The Queer
speech at the closing of the session s.,
that her relations with all forei On pow,
i continue cordial, and she looks forwl
he with confidence to the maintenance of +
Of ropean peace The visit of the Sultan
ii Zanzibar has led to the conclusion OF
!, supplementary convention looking to
- more complete suppression of the Afrc
he slave trade. With regard to the attack
10 an English expedition and the murder
i. Chinese TERRITORY. she says that no etfo
ID will be spared TO secure the punishment
T. the instigitors and perpetrators of I
,e crime. Regarding the shipping bills. II
IL Majesty rejoices that Parliament has be
us able, by the temporary enactment, to
cd minish the d,nyers to which British st
m men are exposed.
g THE MORGAN MYSTERY A intcrt
nd ing letter to the New York Herald.
lv ThurlOw Weed. gives some Of his rem
IN iscences Of the supposed murder of NJ
- gan by Masons in the autumn of Is
One of the five MaSons who drowl
Morgan in Lake On>irio, he says, t
m. him the whole story at Albany in i
it'll which is as follows: Morgan had b
re- incarccrated in Canandaigu;, prison 70
MS legal offence, and from this place he W
is at night, carried in a close carriage
nd Fort Niagara and there confined in
he magazine While four Kni ghts Temp
pts were somewhat under the influence
tlv wine. Col William King Of LockpOrt
tor suaded them to join in executing the d,
.re showing them ut the same time what
the ported to be an order from Grand Ma
eft De Witt Clinton. Morgan was then t..
po from the fort by these five men,
the drowned in the lake just opposite
in mouth of the Niagara. weights hay
aid been attached to his body. Sometime
as terward a body came ashore and
eat Morgan Identified it by certain mark
+b,t Of hon. husband Tho ooroporc J,,;