Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-02-09

Senator-eect Beck. of Kentucky, has
been appointed the arbitrator for the state
ofEirgina. on the Maryland and Virginia
boundary line commission, in the place
of the late Ex-Governor Graham of North
Carolina.
The second trial of Thomas W. Piper.
Tor the murder of Mabel Young, began
January 3lst in Boston, and is drawing
to a close. The deed is known as the
bclfy murdcr,' and was done on the
sd of MAY.
The national republican congressional
committee, Monday, elected Senator Cam
eron of Pennsylvania, chairman, J. NJ.
Edmunds secretary, Jacob Tome, treasur-
CT. and the following executive committee 3:
Senators Cameron, Cragin, West. Logan
and Dorsey, the Representatives Rust
Hubbcl. Snnichson and Platt.
The Maine farmers are irving to raise
more sheep and fewer dogs There are
fortv-seven Of them in the lower branch
OF the legislature, and they have voted
the wool crop.
" Alkaline jim, the notorious Califor-
MIA criminal who has spent fourteen wears
behind the bars. and whose latest exploit
was the theft of $500 from Wells, FARGO
Co., has Just been captured at st Louis
WHITTIER he had escaped from prison.
The bodies of the two men. Luron and
Dutault. who were drowned in going from
Isle La Motto to Rouses' Point. were found
on the 18th inst. Search was made for
them by cutting holes in the ice. They
make five persons who have been DROWN
cd near the same spot
Schuyler Colf,x lccturcd at Evanston.
ILL.,, the seat of the Northwestern univcr
>ity. last week, and afterward visited the
hall OF the college society to which he
used to belong, whcrcupon 4 lot of fellows
belonging to rival societies locked the
whole party in and kicked up quite a rum
pus.
Six NOV wni>hey IuuictiIrIlt, n,., -,
turned in Milwaukee, last Thursday.
against gaugcrs and di>tllcrs, and two
against Chicago burglars who entered into
with the dis,illers. last sum
mer. proposing, if paid a certain sum- to
break into the collectors office and des
troy all papers to be used rs evidence
against the ring.
\ Discovery The Custom House
officials say that they have ascertained that
the female smugglcr and accomplicc in
the Morgan silk robbery at Montreal some
three months ago, now confined in st.
Adams jail under tn" name of Marion
Bran>tcld, Is the notorious Mollic Hol-
brook, who was in the custody of a West
ern detective. some months AGO. en- route
between Chicago and New York, and
when passing through Canada refused to
enter the United States.
The story of 4 wholesale emigration of
fitualstic clrrgvmcn to Rome. and Of
efforts of Cardinal Manning to make bet
ter terms for them at the Vatican than are
granted to individual converts. was so alb
surd on its face that the accumulated con-
tradctions that have lately burJened the
telegraph seem hardly necessary. 1t i, |
not a very uncommon thing for High
Church Anglican ministers to go over"
but the Pope always eXact> the same TN
surrender, and makes no de- |
dI'tlon when he takes 4 quantity.
Without consulting the Sultan or the in
'urGent chiefs. Count Andrassy drew up.
at the instance of the three Imperial
Powers, a plan for settling the Hcrzerov-
lnlan conflict. This the Sultan has inst
accepted. and if honestly executed it would |
greatly improve the condition of the OBJ
pressed Christians. But us the insnrrcnt
leaders have openly denounced foreign in
reference, and have exhibited no conf
tience in Turkish faith, it is improbable
hat the proposed administrative reforms
Will be acceptable to them. Diplomacy
has. however. played its part, and the
whole affair has reached a critical position
The total number of vessels built in the
'nited States in 1879 was one thousand
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