Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-08-04
News and GOSSip.

News and Gossip.
snow bank several feet deep is located now
two miles from Manchester, n. II.
Cyrus A. Sanders, of Dix1eld Village, Ne, com.
mitted suicide by hanging himself to the rail of n
hayrack.
Tool, the actor who recently returned to Eng
land, loses $40 90 by the failure of Duncan Sher.
man, & Co.
skif containing four men was run down by
| a steamer in the Ohio River, on the 23i, and all
the men were drowned
foreign laly recently sold kiss for So go
while lady passenger who sued Western con-
ductor for kissing her only got $1,000. This shows
| how much better one can do by individual inter-
prise than depending tariff that is re lated by
| law.
The old Indian reservation of one hunlre thous-
and acres of swamp lands Wisconsin, the title to
which has long been in dispute between the State
and the United States, has just been awarded 10
| the former.
millionaire of Granville. Wis. has recently |
made will, in which he leaves $4,000 to any In |
corporated town village Wiscon sin that will
| not tolerate a brass band.
A cat in Quechee recently gave birth to twelve
proverb that no cat has two tails" by produc-
ng anoble pair Of appendases of that description
Gen Biiwell says that rasin making with ma
tive grapes is industry worth $500 900 annually
TO California.
A San Francisco ordinance declares that any
three Californans under the age OF twenty-one,
comprises a rotous assemblage.
The new Atlantic cab'e has been broken and
are ma n pla il in
Over two thousand workmcn, on a strike at
the st. Gohard tunnel. created the 18TH and
were dispersed by troops with l,ss Of two killed
and several wounded.
n. Munroe's strawberry crop at Bellows Falls
this season, has been unusually fine and large.
| amounting to 400 boxes or almost IA bushels.
James Denny forged his fathers name paper
| to Judge Allen of North Ferrsburgh to the amount
| of $500 and made tracks. But the young prodigal
has returned and been forgiven and all is lovely
again
Recently two new pulor were received on
| the Passumpsic road.
There is lively business In New Hamp shire
among dealers in revolvers and door bolts, in view
| of the epredatiOns of tramps.
| Kentucky sh ),inI aft .ir o:cIrrei in Cynthi
ana the 10Th, Or. Donally killing Dr. Pickover and
| being killed by brother in law of his victim.
| The yellow fever at Fort Barrancas, Florida
already is raging with greater violence than it did
at Pensacola within four miles of that place, last
| summer The total number of cases at Pensacola
then was Is with % deaths while at Ba-rancas there
has SO far been about Is cases and p deaths.
| Senator Edmunds and family are at Woods Hole
| Mass.
| recent visitor to Hlworth found Charlotte
Bronte and her sisters well and tenderly remen
| bered, AMI learned that Rev. Mr. Nichols Chal
lottes husband, hal lately been there with his new
married second wife, and taken back to tn cir home
in Ireland, Martha, the former of the
Brontes. who was with Charlotte in her last illness
The Hon. Robert c. W Winthrop. who has been in
Europe for the last dflecn months with his ia nj
has engaged his passage home September, and
will probably here IN the latter part of that
month.
Gen Sherman has auth Dried the comnan ling
officer at Fort Barrancas. Fla, where they have
been having such yellow fever scourge, to re
move the whole or any part Of his command to the
pine woods OF Florida. any point the ON
mantlis general of the department of the gulf may
} approve No new cases of fever were reported
Saturday There have been IS cases and II death,
so far.
Nj. II. T. IIeln5>L the we'll known manufac
turer of patent medicines, who has been abroad for
nearly four years. arrive in Boston Friday night,
IN good health an plrits. He proposes to launch
out into business again.
i, Saratoga AS Sc luile Germ prin e and two
4 barons.
, Father Tom Burke is recovering at his Ireland
home from his recent severe sickness.
! Ex-Gov W,ls viii not he ready to take the
# district att ,fney's Off till September L. and ish
er will have till then to close NJ.
f The Scientific American doesn't believe that
Donaidsoo, the acronlut, is dead; it thinks his
disappearance is merely an Advertising dodge OF
Barnum S.
Mss Charlotte eastman, now at Newport, gave
u party the 25d inst to celebrate her 59th birth
day.
It Edward Thornton, the British minister LETT Wash
ington for Long Bra lch SATURDAY., An will s,en
= August there and at Newport.
l. The treasury jepa tine IT iorbds the importation
OF cattle sheep. and goats from Spain, il CO ,sc-
j quence of the hpof disease in that country.
5 Young Duncan has been specializing that's wha
Is the matter. lie has bee gong blind in lotion
IS londs, New York and Montreal schemes. AMI is
sal to have written his epitaph in his ledger
overa losi1s transaction. in tue following immor-
al and slightly unsramm ltical terms a In
fool" The mortgage Transaction is not very salts
factory to his c'edors, and the papers have ceased
to eulog,ze his high virtues.
| Ofenbach, the comp oScr. above his
daughter to attend any of his operas and she wen
d for the first time, the other day as a married wo.
is man.
: Rev Glendenning of J erscy City and Ma. Pom
eroy notorety is again II trouble. some tine az,
e he gave ont that he had received a call from Z
< church at Allentown. Pa. at q sal ary of 5000
h One of the elders of the church, who was little
inc"edLloLs wrote t. ALE It Dwn and saws that tn,
y answer to his letter proves oilendenning a liar
Old Propa5es - has gone 10 the Yellow tone
l with Gen Be'knap, Al | a green h,ni i. running
TX the weather while he is of.
J. Organ grinders are arrested in Phila elphla TO
L vag lancy.
=" Ga the nj 5ht OF June &! u fire in Hong Kon:
destroyed much foreign property, including tn
IS premises OF Russell 4 Co. The loss is estimate,
70 at saj0,e0o.
saac Fauchcr of Sandy Hill, prom nent Mile,
W ite announces, after aborious figuring that tn,
US world viii end July 1. $50. This takes the win
u, out of the Centennial.
his August will have two moons one on the st i.
se one the Both of the month. This is 81 uuusu;
thing, not hwins occurred since aoou, the yea
ls5S
There now 10 steamboats, and tugs plying o
Is LAKE Champlair, besides Cana ians. The bes
8 pilots receive $50 per month.
to In Boston, Saturday, Connection, anil Passunr
sc IA road stock, preferred, sold at 50; IS, Iss
be 94a OSdcnsburg and LaAe Champlain, 80; RutIar
as Railroad, preferred, L.. The Passumpsic Railroa
passes its August dividend, ills year for the fir
time since lSC5.
in Mr. T. V. X. Wi llson, trough Iesigning his Supe
ntendcncy of the Rutland and Washington Divi
ion of he Delaware AID Hudson Canal Compan
p will still Ieam in IN Rutland, and CONTINUE TO act
n the Compo1y's agent in their immense coal bu
III ness.
Col. George Merrill h is resigned his position
super ,ten'lcnt of the Passumpsic Railroad, to Ia
effect Sept LIST, ls.j.
=, The fshcrie at Labrador ale reported to
II almost complete failure. Vess. of 900 qu