Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-02-17
Gossip and News.
This winter has a spinal column.


This winter has spinal column.
The French Ministry has resigned.
Long Island Sound navigation is only partially
open.
Eyarts is described as an interrogation point III
good health"
The Louisiana Congressional Committee has re-
turned to Washington.
Mr.. Beecher thinks that any system OF fei'sion 10
better than no religion
"What can't be cured must be sold ifesh' Is
what they say in POrkopols.
Bills to abolish capital punishment are recei'-
ing the death penalty all round this year.
Mr. T. 3. Aldrch intends going TO EUROPE AZ
March, to be absent six or seven months.
Thurlow Weed is confined to his house ny Sc
we're injuries received by falling on the ice.
The report of the Wisconsin Railway Commis-
sioners recommends the repeal of the Potter kaii-
way Bill.
Governor Davis and Mr.. Ramsey have WITH
drawn from the United States Senatorial contest IN
Minnesota.
Penobscot Bay, in Maine, is frozen over Tor the
second time in % years, and people walk across
from Castne, u miles.
Mrs. Bowman Of Brooklyn was Killed "eohes-
,lay by the explosion of theIwater heating appara
tus OF her kitchen range.
Somebody has offered large term. 10 Mayor |
SAM Ward, to deliver 4 lecture on HE lopDy'
throughout tie country.
Eight hundred men were employed one day last
week in attempting to raise the snow blockade on
The Iowa Central Railroad.
Why is New Hampshire Ike Judge Poand'5 DIS
trlct. Because its mighty nsartn wheh you
think it is, it isn't.-Boston Glote.
Advertising pays. A Dubuque Iowa, man VINO
advertises largely thereby discovered by i vie
whom he deserted several years ago
Repo,ts from.Prince Edwards Island state that
the whole island Is now an immense ho"-Dahh'
and almost all kinds of work are at stind-sul.
Poor Bessie Turner, the story goes, is hlend-
less and forlorn, and doesn't know VIII ch way 10
turn The Beecher case has been 4 mefol tune 10
her.
| The Hon James u. Peck OF kentucky, who broke
his arm, recently, by fall on the Icy Sidewalk i
SO recovered that he hopes to be in his seat III
the House soon.
An eminent law professor and judge wished for a
programme at place of public amusement, ANA
asked "Wlll YOU just be good enough TO hand me
the statement of facts -
The translation of the -Enei which the dislin-
ed on, will be line for line OF the original, anu ~
rhimed fourteen y liable meter
The landed property of oxford University, Eng /
land amounts to Ia AZ acres, and that of Cam
bridge, ll7,27l These Lands yield. on an average
less than one pound sterling an acre.
The bill removing the state capital Of west Yer
GINA frnm Charleston TO Wheeling within 80 days
was passed by the House, Saturday. p to =, and
W NaIts tip
Gen. James Longstreet has abandoned LouiSi-
ana and the foI tunes Of the kellogg party ami has
bought a farm in White County, Georgia, where he
proposes to engage largely In sheep raising.
Moulton, 1t seems, went into ply steal training TO
be equal TO the fitness stand. lie came IN fresh,
and Evarts came in tagged, hence the contest was
unequal. TIlton Is evidently not III framing.
! Henry W. Longfeilow is 10 deliver the poem and
Rev. DR.. Cheever the Grafton before the alumni OF
Bowdoin College at the next commencement. The
al of their class Will then be celebr
! ted
\ New York correspondent says that hundreds
of comsumptives, acting ON the ADVICE OF cninen,
ply sicians visit the slaughter house there daily
| for the purpose OF drinking the blood from
Mr. Thomas Carlyle has declined the oG.r OF tie
mendaton OF Mr.. Disracll. 1t is stated that Mr..
| Alfred Tenny.o has also declined the Offer OF
baronctcy.
The typical old bachelor OF the country, VIII
liam Is. Ogden, a railroad au real estate million
ARE of Chicago and New York, aged -, has just
married Miss Arnoit, wealthy maiden lady of
Elmira, \. Y.
| Madame Christine Nelson has been engaged fol
81 GO anight give /. operate concerts France
during March next. These Will be divided DC
tween The cities ofLyons, Marsallles Lille Nantes
Bordeaux Rouen, Nice and Toulouse.
The total quantity of anthracite coal mined IN
Pennsylvania IN lS74 was 81 ,6Oi coJ tons.
| $50 200 900 cubic feet. Placed in solid mass,
this would form a solid wall one hundred feet high
one hundred feet wide, and nearly eleven miles in
length.
DR.. Peters of Utica, one OF the American party OF
observers of the transit of Venus writing from
New Zealand, says: I'VE have determ ned, fol
the first time, as believe since the the
world the real size OF Venus, with the accuracy OF
about the 300Oth part Of its value
Blackwood of Edinburgh has published KIN:
lakes hnh volume, in which the battle OF Inker-
mann is described, and it viii soon be reprinted
here by Harper. These volumes come ont at al,nut
the rate Of one in three years which Is faster than
Mr. Bancroft published his ten volumes
In ls.5, as IN 1874 western rennsy lvania has OBJ
Jeciions 10 The practice OF taxing whI,kev Iv the
way, some one has recollected that President
Washington IN the last named year described the
masked Pennsylvania nIght-riier>. calling them
selves Tom-rhe Tlnkcr's Bows. a armc! ban
,iltti"
The proposed monument 10 stephen A. Daurla.
still occupies the attention OF the Illinois Ici>la
4 III ann n
ton OF the monument was ordered TO a third rea:-
Ing, lat week, in the Senate, but there WIS \
strong opposition, and its pas sage Is regarded a.
doubtful.
Reports from Havana the effect that the
insurgents are making progress, and that Captain
General Concha is SO uneasy about II that he has
taken the He'll IN person. When he gets back 10
Havana, the unfortunate fellow, he will have to
surrender his Office TO Valmasela, whom the new
l government at Madrid has sent ont to supcrsele
, him.
The latest version is that Judge Poland was sent
ior' nay OF TWO before the report WAS submitted
3 ne ooeye" Inc summons, and the president told
him he was going 10 send In a message Ii Is I'M.
derstood that the character of the me- sage was in
, uica Ell hui that nothing was directly SAID bv the
president about the tenor of Jude poland,s ro
!, port.
AIT. Emerson 8 " falnaSsus " cannot be sold il
n England because he has quoted much from
+ Tennyson and other poets upon whose books thrr,
Is still copyright Tennyson is said to be eSpcc
Tally careful not TO let his poems he brintel IN book
Oh selections OF this kind. In this country the Vol
- ume is selling fast, The second edition hei,- nav
:, nearly exhausted.
u The dominion government is understood 10 h
:, thoroughly committed to push the Canada p,cid
Il railroad clear through to the emil As RAPIDLY :,
IS possioe. Ihey are bound, As soon as the survey
IS In BRUSH Columbia are completed to spend a
e least t.ooooo year on the road in tn 1t province
I and to complete the line from Lake SUPERIOR +,
Il Esquimaut by 1880.
Il The bishops of the African Mthodist Epjscon,
e church have fixed upon March a ,lav of f,s,in