Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-12-19

membership in the Methodist Church at Ascutney-
vile.
, ajyin Londonderry has discovered that it
,otos inst 3 3,32O stitches to makea sheet,
Tho Brattleboro Phenit says: "Tramps are
,oro numerous than ever and their number is on
,ro increase. Five or six has been the usual mum.
hor in lhe lookup each night during the past week.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
,tRoyalton, th4 eth, a little son of Charles Ly.
man. about four years of age, was drowned in the
mil pond
Rev Mfr. Crosby, of Woodstock, did not read the
Governors Thanksgiving proclamation from the
,rnIt. and stated as reason therefor that he did
t like the idea OF the executive of the state as
cunning TO appoint services for tho church3s and
osorthe Presidents proclamation, he did not like
that any way.
Thomas Lynch of Barnard has commenced
sn,t against Wesson Newcomb for defamation of
character and for false Imprisonment, setting the
damages at a. 900. Immediately after the burning
of,lr. NowcomDs barns Mr. Lynch was arrested
an suspicion o having set fire to the same, and
confined IN Woodstock Jail three weeks, when he
was released.
Virginia seems disposed to keep good
fifth with its creditors; Tennessee to re-
rIdiate, destroy its credit and bring upon
itself lasting disgrace.
The democrats of the Senate have Sc
lpr,el Dan Voorhees, as a member of the
Finance Committee. If they will take
what Dan Voorhees, doesn't know about
finances, it would cover the whole subject.
johnny lost his knife. After searching
in one rocket and another until lie had
been through all, without success, he ex-
claimed: 80 dear wish l had anolh-
cr pocket it might be in that"
The municipality of Paris has under
trial plan by which intelligence of a fire
can at the same moment be transmitted to
the police officers, the fire department and
the water works. 1t has for some time
been in operation in Amsterdam, and is
now being applied in Brussels.
A SHORT AND PITHY SERMON is
one of the shortest and pithiest sermons
ever preached; "Our ingress into life is
naked and bare; our progress through life
is roub r aud care; our egress out of it
we know not where; but doing well here
We shall do well there. | could not tell
you more by preaching year"
The Car aflrms that he will not make
peace till he can secure self-government
for the Christians, independence for Ser
viz and Rpumania, and another slice of
E,, ipfc
of the spos includes Kars, Batoum and
the free navigation of the Dardaneles. |
For Turkey to grant all this would be
about the same as giving up the Ottoman
Empire.
Hendricks talks sense. An indianapolis |
reporter having got hold of him and ques-
toned him about the report that Tilden
Md taken the oath of office and was going
to make contest for the presidency yet, |
hercpIiod that he didn't know anything
about IiIden plans, and then went on to
say; AS far rs | am concerned. Mr.. |
Wheeler has been sworn into the Office of
vice,mesidcnt and will stay there for four
years When he was sworn that ended it"
Prince Bismarck likes to find everything
in his study in disorder and general topsy
tuvincss, Just as he left bottles, mugs,
cigars and cigar boxes, odd gloves, books,
pamphlets papers, letters, spurs, stray
antiques, swords, hand mirrors. pistols,
fiddle strings, tlutes-these are all articles
be wants to put his hand on at short no.
tce. and see living around loose on the ia
beS, floor and soEls Whenever he dis
covers any signs that his wife or the scrv-
ants have been trying to set things to
rights Il terrible row is raised
little e-year-old fellow came up to
his mother the other morning, and with
great earnestness, said, Mother, | saw
something run across the kitchen floor this
morning, and it hadn't any legs, either;
what do you suppose it was?" The
mothers CurioSity was excited ut the APP
parent strangeness of the supposed ami
NAL, and, not knowing what else to say,
She said she supposed 1t was u worm, or
something of that sort-she did not know
what Having for some time enjoyed his
Mo,herS inability to solve the problem, he
said, It was water"
Ihe announcement that the blacks in the
south are dying twice and three and four
times as fast as the whites, is made good,
apparently, bv the figures of official reports,
N gwen in the New Y York Times. In the
ia!er cllles,in remote agricultural regions,
III IIe small and snlubrious towns noted for
AeaIh giving surroundings, in the hospitals
U Charleston where blacks and whites re-
VeIFe the slme food, care and medical
%m0eldance and even in Washington and
baltimore, where the bulk of blacks living
AZ domestic servants enjoy the same srs-
,enehee aswhitcS, the blacks still fall off in
Tue proportion of two to one.
Some people discredit the powers of the
pA9nogaph, the latest invention, which is
9olIIe up sounds for reproduction CEN
mre' .i hence. But why should we doubt
'N When very famous traveller in Sibe-
u" lH recorded that one day in the in
,enSe coId there, the notes of his position
."e IN The horn rs he blew it, so that no
s'''o was heard but aflerward, in an inn,
Dry Ep.y 'ni"ed out and played the King of
n5ls5' March " all the way through
""l90l The honest POSITIONS putting his
Io''n 10 the horn. If we are to believe
g'S story of the German baron, we cannot
Y?'M the power of the phonograph.-
@~ York sim.
H.. "A recent number of the Konische lei
lung had Il long and curious account of an
I"eI'Iew between Mehemet Ali and Il
. ."lf correspondent of the Zeitung, at Ali's
,Ga'e1.'' [G'"'pilc'' near Constantinople, shortly
"'y' ms removal from the chief COM
W. W'"' oI The Turkish armies in Bulgaria.
we give the following:
% 'eYefal secretaries came in with docu-
,I ,"p"'S 10 he signed, and one brought n
IgSI'n written, in English, which Me-
ra. rel'e, All requested me to translate. 1t
nan. NV" ul"; Saw your picture in the pa
Tns' rba =, ARE umy long-lost brother JohnP'
wb o Siushlr was considerably abashed
Gn "vu l explained to him that Mr.. X.
bo ,O'I amsterdam had taken him to be
o tro. 'Lo'her John, who had disappeared
''Op ILLS home long ago.
b,' %aen men jury acquits woman who has
d ' 'Ie misfortune to murder II man, he
If b," all mat can reasonably be expected
Ho |,ul' ml Mortimer E. Durkee, a suscepti-
Aolsg.' o Gentleman residing in village near
Ioo",n' Isooua not only joined his eleven col
gn,i,' SptS rs IN rendering a verdict of " not
fib%'.y ibn w., IN the case of Cora Youngs, but in
sono warmth aIh of his sympathy for the hand
wab Win , prisoner has gone so far as to elope
ons sp "a tyF, IT. his wife, strange to say, was
Giar1. Ae girls kindest and most earnest
in TSp,S' Ils and had been doing her utmost to