Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-08-11
News and Gossip.

Nevada will have Chinese COLLEGE
Favorable crop reports come from Nebraska.
Yellow fever is abating at Fort Barrancas, Fla.
The Naugatuck AMI IIousa onic rivers are YER,
low.
Albert S. Dodge, a New York wine merchant ha
failed.
decline in all branches of the cotton market i
, noted.
The Mississippi river continues to rise at Mem
Moody and >ankey have declined their inyitato,
to Montreal.
Machas, Maine, was severely visited by a temp
est on Saturday.
The government shipping bill has passed. til
English parliament.
The manufacturers in Watertown, Conn, are al
running on full time.
Richard schell of New York is at the head of
." soft money movement"
Joe johnson declines the presidency of the Ark
ansas industrial institution.
Sandy Hill and Fl Edward want to centepp ial
ize the memory ofJane McCrea.
Peaches are are almost given away in New York
50 complete is the glut of the market
Eliza Cook, the poetess, is now in q helpless con
tiition, and past all hope of recovery.
Rich gold lissings are reported to have been dis
covered IN Clusters Gulch, Black Hills.
The late Or. wlnslow Levi. was buried a, Mount
Auburn, Friday with Masonic honors
1t IS reported that efforts are being made to make
corner in petroleum in Pennsylvania.
Andrew johnson had an insurance upon his life
amounting IN the aggregate to $350OOO.
The committee to investigate Prof Marsh,
chlrges have reached Red Cloud agency
Dogs doing great damage to sheen in Corn
wall, Conn One man had 81 killed in one night
Budl Doble is driving behind judge Fullerton
nov a'days' IN suiky that weighs only 40 pounds
An infant at Cheservlilc. Ne, was recently
! Killed by an army worm, which crawled into its
| ear.
The dental convention at Niagara Falls adjourned
after election d. Northrop, OF New York pes.
dent.
The Carlton, Mass, grabbed man keeps a bull
IN the berry pasture TO scare away the bows and
girls.
VIM Il. Duncan says his father has offered 1850 O Q
10 protect the letters of credit Of Duncan sherman
4 Co.
In Boston, Monday, orders against smoking in
street cars wcrr pat force on five Of the CITY
roads
The failure Of Baxter & Co., the grain merchan t.
OF New York City has n bad effect upon the grain
market
Heavy rains on FrIlly broke down and dam.
aged thousands of h.is of grain in the vicinity of
Ottawa, Ont.
Donallsons children are at Roche ster n Y .
and toll.
their benefit.
Admiral Worden and the American feet under
his command are having cordial receptions at the
ports on the Baltic.
Mrs. John {. Breckinridge comtemplates NOV.
Ing from her old home IN Lexington, Ky, to Arkan
saS, IN the Autumn.
They have had \ three mile boat race in Rhode
Island. Ii was provided that the contestants must
not row out OF the State.
The keene Sentinel says that no one in that city
goes TO bed now without revolver m ,un ia in
howUzer within easy reach.
An Omaha dispatch says a hail siorn there the
4th did immense damage to crops and smashed
over 80 800 worth of glass.
One thousand cigar who have been on a
strike at Key West since July lst, commenced
work the 4th. at reduced rates.
The first volume of the American translation Of
the Count of Pari-'s history of late war; is now
in press and Will be ISSUED soon.
Mark Twain and family, Schuyler ColfaN and
wife, and Rear Admiral Worien ave among the
recent arrivals at Newport, r. |.
several New Otleans cigar manufactures were
seized by treasury officers. yesterday on the
charge that their returns are fraudulent.
Three children were killed by bear at Gatin-
eau, Ont, Last week, while picking berries, and
only the feet and arms of one can be found
At Point 81. Charles, Canada. Sunday, a brave
woman shot and killed one OF the party e rouyhs
who attempted iorcibly to enter her dwelling.
Charles W. sleeper. paymaster OF the Lowell
Machine Shop, disappeared my ster iously on Thurs.
day evening, and there are fears of foul play
1t is said that JtG Davis is going to write a his
tory Of the Better for him if he could un.
write his own history connected with the war
Joseph A. Young, eldest son of Brigham died
very suddenly of heart disease Thursday night
lie leaves several widows AMI urge company of
orphans.
Homer T. weei of Bethel, Conn, fell from
hay cart the Both ult., upon pchf,rk. one line
Of which pierced his heart, and caused almost in
slant death.
Rich dg,ln.s have been discovered in Clusters
such at the Black II ills. The miners want per
mission from the government to leave 100 of their
nun Der to guard their claims.
Notwithstanding JEFF Davis has said no to
the Texas agricultural college and the Georgia
they talk of offering him he presidency
of the MOI tn Carolina university.
The managers of the Boston base ball club talk
of filling the vacancies in their next years nine
partly, at least, with amateurs, who have developed
into frs-class players, this season.
Gen. Judson Fitzpatrick lectured last year over
hundred times, and has already SO engagements
or this winter for his new lecture, the Irish
Solder in the var OF tn, ii.b .pn
Disastrous fools havc occurred in the north |
western provinces OF India. Many dwellings o.
he natives have been destroyed, and it is feared |
here has been serious loss of lf, il the interior.
The majority for the constitutional COW ention |
n Alabama will be from IS 900 to 20 900; Montgom
'ry folks celebrated the results, recently, by
'osting the national flag the capitol, and firing
Il guns.
TIE American fleet under Admiral W o1dcn have
net with grand receptions in Ru ssa. German,
Norwegian and swedish ports, and were visited by
King Oscar, and the Duke Of Edinburgh and other
oval peIsOnages.
Capt Paul 3 ,yton ms OF IRE hi' ser ices in aid
If the inundatioa sufferers, by proposing to Nine.
AcMahon to give at Paris, the 10Th inst a series
# eXperim ntS with his life saving dress. H-
fer has been accepted.
The greatest lorna 10 ever KIN own in that pat OF
he country passed over st. ,l,chi, in Dorchester
ounty, p. @, July %. Hail stones larger than
fill tho for |
niles square to depth OF four inches.
Andrew johnson LETT three lIvm, children. Mrs
cnator Paterson, Mrs. W. X. Brown, and his
"ungest son, Frank, who sings himself Andrew
OhnsOn, .Jr lie had two other sons of whom
,harles died during the war. AMI Robert in 1853.
1t is proposed to erect grand mau soleum on the
sash lille (renn,) capitol g. ounds. which now
cing ornamented, where shall be deposited not
My Andrew John.on's remains. but also those of
ickson and Folk, Tennessecs other two presi
Tents.