Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-12-22
News and Gossip.
Don Carlos still has an army of $1,000 men.

1t again rnmOred that Grant wants to buy
Cuba.
The January interest Tennessee bonds Will
not be paid.
The Earl of DE, by has been installed rector Of
the University of Edinburgh.
Secretary Bristow says Senator Logan is not
| mixed up in the whskey ring.
| Garibaldis Tiber improvement echeme has been
rejected by the Roman government.
Default has been made in the payment of the
| coupons of the Peruvian government
| Ex-Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Smith, has
been elected president of Howard University.
OF the eighteen representatives, who voted against
the anti-third-term resolution the 18th, SIX were
colorcd.
| Thirteen bodies Of adults and seventeen of child
rem lay in the Morgue, New York, for Identification
| on the l4lh
The Dominion government is anxious that the
| United States Government should investigate the
| Pacific disaster.
| The six million dollar suit against Tweed 5 set
down for trial the first Monday in January in the
| supreme sourt
| The special Treasury agent at New York has
made large seizures of frlu,lulenty imported
millinery goods.
| Jem Mace will leave London for New York, Dec.
%, to fight with Tom Allen, but does not sthiak AL
len wants TO fight.
| Duncan, sherman & Co., were adj Judged involun-
tary bankruptS. on Saturday, by their creditors,
with claims aggregatng S2l6>,0op
| \ Berlin dispatch says agent of President
| Grant has arrived at Cetgne, Offering to sell the
! IIerzcgovinians cannon on credit.
| The worst enemy of the poor l. the dema
goguc who seeks to persuade him that the man of
wealth is his encmy--Boston Post.
| Cincinnati has packed 2,j.91l hogs thus far, this
| season. which Is just All more than she hid put
down at the same date, year ago.
| 1t is believed that the suts in behalf of the PEG
| pie of Brooklyn against Kingsley and others OF tie
| ring Will be commenced this week
| Mr. lanes Lick the California philinthropist, is
besicged with nnumerable letters asking for pc
cunary and IN all sorts OF enterprises.
A conference of I'm tied Christian representatives
at Bosnia has decided to contau the conflict with
| the Porte until the Turks are all expelled.
The Hurst and Watkin committee of the English
| Eric railroad bon,iholders have submitted new
scheme Tor conducting the affairs of the company.
y family of i've persons, living In Louisville NY
| were dangerously poisoned Wednesday night by
| soup cooked and allowed 10 stand in copper Ike
| tie.
| In the French Assembly, Wednesday,, the legit:-
| MIST elected two senator's the Bonapartlsts one,
the lett eight, the left four an the Ia heals
| four.
| The directors of the L. :. Cable Company be
lIeve that the cable WI, broken by vessel,
and have offered a reward for the discovery of the
vessel.
rrrlp l,ife from lar, a. ihp {pn "
johnson says he expects 10 return home IN JanU.>-
| ry. He may possibly 70 again TO Eng land in the
spring.
Three freight cars containing 81 0t0 900 worth uf
81 worm eggs arrived IN New York We ines
day morning. They had IRON Hong Kong va
san Francisco.
Deer are unusually plenty IN the Wild OF Himil
| ton county, y. Y, AMI are in very fine condition
owing TO the great alum lance OF beech nuts IN III
forests there.
I. u. Tlley an | george f. ;atcllIe of Angus
II, ia, fought luel the I'th,rppn the formers
challcn-c.-and Tllley WAS seriously wounded in
| the groin at The first fire.
Additional troop, have arrived at Havan:. from
spain. The spanish ste.,ner Churruca has
sailed With present, OF horses AMI ior The
president Of >an domingo.
Walter L:tnsm al OF >untoOk, Y H., brother OF
Josie Langmal l. The victim OF the terrible Penn
broke tragedy, dicI OF typhoid fever. AT hi la
| Tiers residence, thursday InoruIng-
The queen OF Denmark and Princess Thvra have
| returned to Denmark. They accompanied by
Alexandra, Princess OF W acs and her chIllrei, who
VIII spend the holiday i'll Denmark.
AwrIter in the IRA hic don't believe Boss Tweed
has run away he thinks he was kidnapped and muir
| I,.rn ball
| broache | that he has gone 10 heaven.
Japan has abolished harIhari a. a method of pun
| l>hment and the vinil alton OF personal honor:
cl>lc Is 10 longer enforced, and The SHAVING OF
heads /, discontinued by the more enrshtenc, 1T
| Izcns
Ia Il t line OF How To Bring Up Parents" Is
The speech of the little boy who sad Father. l
think you should give up swearing or fanny
| prayers" The boy Iecosn zed the fitness oi
things
Tnc Rice grammar school building. corner OF
| Dartmouth and Appleton streets, Boston, covering
an area OF 1900 square feet, WIS partially dc
-tioyei bF lte On the morning OF the aiih. Loss
| $1,000.
! Joseph >hrcni. of "rovnc clown, Wa, drowned
on iia'e FONT by the cap>lzlns OF ,ipry IN the
suri, While attempting 10 lant. lie leaves a WIFE,
VINO lost her first hu-bAn IN rec ISclv slii.lI.
way oil tie point.
a few days since a man convicted ol drunkenness
stood up before his Honor The Police Court and
his Honor sad IN his slow, solemn way T,lriye
you ti'or thirty days e Wei, Ill tax the $40.
squire, replied the fellow.
| seasAin vest, every button oi which con.
tanned a solitaire diamond WAS what Is sa1i Ia
have once prompted COMMITS Ioner Douglas. To
advise Supervisor Mcdonald 10 dress more Ike
he man and a Christian"
| \ piece OF WOOD cut from a tree is good con.
| iuct"r Let It be heated and dried, It becomes AN
lnsulator. Let II be baked 10 charcoal, 1t becomes
Il good conductor again Burn II to ashes and !,
| becomes an m>uator oncc more.
The President, view of Nr. Il ain., .ou,,.., >,
him III refusing TO vote Oh the thir,.-,erm re.olu
ton, Is u witty one. Tn World repo,ts hmm \.
saying: Blaine needn be SO precious careful
lie does IA stand IN any body's way"
Two men named Parks and Coy, at West Brlm
field, Mass, were killed by an express tram =,
Palmer. Friday evening. \ freight train IN ,,.
opposite direction hid their view, and they drove
upon Inc track Jl>t before the locomotive
| " Are You i Christian :" asked Mrs. Van Colt. NJ
revival meeting, of newspaper man VIII, b,j
taken front seat that he might better repyrt Inc
proceedings 81 guess not SAID he, an, u
fePof'e'' she passed on 10 4 more no pciul case.
Gavin Robinson of Bow, \. H., a farmer about
% years old went INTO the woods W It'll his oxen the
o'ner u'y ior "A load OF wood, and the oxen return
'nS without MIN, search was made and he was found
EihS upon his lace dead. Heart disease WAS rroi
ably the cause.
younsster while warming his hanl, over the
h''oneh MT Was demonstrated with 10y his father
who said;' 10 way from the stove. The w,.,t ~, :;
not cold" The little fellow, looking up ,lemurI .
his stern parent, replied: al amt be,i,n, IN:
weather; am warming my hands,
In view OF the recent outra-es ON tb.. I,,,.,r H.,
the McNicans, The citizens OF San Iucro b,v. -,
dertahcn to form q volunteer force To ,,,Se,,
order. Antonio DorsO, of Lower "a hforni, uh
has been prominent in his efforts to maintain or,r
ana punish the brlgands, was found dead. sbo,
through the head.