Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-14

mint he mas RTculiy hhpIO'cu IA "N"''''' ~ -
debt of Philadelphia is $72S90,372 49,
Alexander Il. Stephens was CO years old on sun
dov. and nobody has hardwood enough to predict
that he won't celebrate several more birthdays.
Addiction sore long lime we bore
Physicians were IN vain;
Until at last we used blue glass,
And thus we lost OuEpaln.
At southold, Monday, Ida Tinker and BENZ
franklin were drowned while attempting to pass
from n smack in the harbor to the shore in small
boat.
Gov. Hayes TENDED banquet of the Cincinnati
LAWYERS, Saturday night and made pleasant lit
tie speech, without any allusion to politics, oil
course.
Tassey Stewart, farmer of Yerba county, Cali
has been arrested charged with attempting to BRIDE
Secretary Chandler with $500 TO render a decision
in his favor in 4 land case.
This is the way Wattereson announced II week
ago last Sunday morning: 1.-The first oil my IV'Voo
Kentuckians has already arrived at the capital
He is in arms too-and he weighs IL pounds"
The farmers are putting their pans and buckets
in order; and brown sugar boiled over and Dull'
dozcd with a little old maple sugar, will soon DO
offered rs the first sweets of the sugar season.
A London despatch says the famous ShorIhorn
cow, Tenth Duchess Of Geneva" is dead Ihls
animal was bought by Lord Beehive, at New YORK
Mills, state OF New York, in 1915 for over S5O OoO'
reuusition of tho war dc apartment in favor Of
Cant, Eads for $500 900 worth of bonds on account
of his work 10 the Mississippi river has been
- "a dnOartmrnt,
An Indian temperance convention, consisting OF
six delegates from every civilized tribe in the Unit
cd States and Canada, has been called to meet nexl
September on the Cattaraugus reservation, IN New
York State.
The unemployed of Albany adopted resolutions,
Monday, implorlng the city to give work to the
people who have nothing to do, of whom they de-
clared there were 200 in the city, whose families
were starving.
The youngest contributor to the Centennial Ex-
hibition was Miss Mabel Warren Thyng aged three
and half years. the daughter of an artist in Salem
Mass. Tho little woman exhibited an outline draw
ing of bell and pear.
The Pennsylvania House by a vote of 90 repub-
llcans to II democrats, passed resolution, Mon
day night, denouncing the course of the national
House of Representatives in combining ex-Gov.
Wells for contempt
The Delaware and Hudson canal company have
promulgated an order to the effect that "conduc
tors will be particular and have their brakcmen see
that passengers are not allowed to enter the cars
at any station without first showing their tickets.
1t picturcsquely stated that "one would al
aoon think of a Kansas grasshopper dancing" az
Of Gov. Blue Jeans Williams INDUCING in that ex
crcise, such is his general aspect. His recent bal
was however, regarded as pleasant affair in II
dianapelis.
The Boston water board have settled with one
third of the owners of the land on the line Of th'
sudbury river conduit and all the owners of mill
near the Ashland basin, for about $2jO,0OO, and
is thought all the claims can be adjusted wlthou
litigation.
1t is reported that Sir Ed "ard Thornton, now
British minister to the United states, will be ap
pointed English ambassador to the porte, 1t is re
ported probable, too, that Duke Decazes will re
sigh the French ministry of foreign affairs and b.
sent as ambassaSor to st. PetersburSh.
Mr., Richard a. Pencil, the strongest man il
New York city, announces his intention at an ath
letlc entertainment, to be given shortly, to rails
and hold in his hands free from his body cannon
Weighing 900 pounds and loaded with blanl
cartridges, which will then be fred while thus SUI
ported.
An OHIO believer in Gen. T leasonton'5 blue gas
theory has had a blue glass room made, in whicl
he keeps his six daughters three hours every day
lie is poor man, but he fancics that the menta
onJ nI,v i'm, Of
their vulue in the matrimonial market, and SO com
pensate him.
A Newburyport Mass. MN, who had expressed
his anxiety to shoulder muskct and 90 and Sc
NTilden nauguraled, received box by cxpress
last wecS, containing wooden gun with Quake
Announcements anil full uniform Of the 7 llIe
National Guards. There was much "lalture
among his fellow workmcn,
f Spoltsmen in the counties ON the Hudson rive
ale importing quail, in large number, from Obi,
, and will feed them till Spring opens. They WI
then distribute them hoping that with propC
precautions, that region will be Iestocked wit
these valuable birds. Several gentlemen in Ru
land are making arrangements TO do the same thin,
The PhiladelphNns are having hot mayoralt
nsht just at present. The Times is for the n
trcnchment and reform candidate, and it keep
ever present before its readers the financial con
ton of the city by lacking ON to every article in il
columns some evidence about it as, for instance
All danger from the ice gorge at Port Depcait
over. Aud the annual tlxatiou in Philadplnhia h,
increased So Sj7lJl 50 during the last five wears
1 In the suit of Josephine Ash against Hen,
1 Astor, one OF the rich AstorI family in which II
: p'alntlH recover ed in Dutches county a verdict
$4,000 damages, the General Term refused. f,
day. IN Brooklyn to grant a motion for a new tria
The plaintiff is the 1ve-year old daux hter of ono
: AstorS tenants. He visited the house of ibo to
ant on his farm one Sunday afternoon, and, dol
ming surplce, begen TO preach, a, was his =
: centric custom lie Knocked the little girl from
nigh chair to the floor, because she laughed. ne
manently inJurinG her spine.
/ About the middle of next May the public will g.
# the last of the present three-cent postage samn
0 anu oeGln TO get accustomed to one that ia rel
t possibly new tint. This change has becon
v necessary, as stamp washers take of the cane,
: a'lon without acid or alkali ami use the st,o
+ AGAIN series of experiments Just compIet,
con'lnces The postal department that green is II
o poorest color to be found. With change of col
lnere Will be change of design The medolli,
mead OF Washington will be retained, but twin
relieved by an open scroll of white, and the scr,
u WORK VIII nave a different pattern.
! New Workers are talking af abolishinp The on.
:, oil coroner entirely, so great are the abuses co
y nected with it The legitimate fees of thc Ma,
nave reached $4,000 in single year, and brihes
as much as $4,000 are sometimes offered far 81
> suppression OF the facts where member of n nro
" 'nent family has committed suicide or died fro
/ some other disgracefu cause. Aside from, ~
D once OF president Of the United State, bo,
C should be no official position in the conntry
winch the emoluments shall amount to mara ~
$1,000 An ONCE that yields an ipdencrao
n fortune to the holder thereof will be too nm,
sought after and not always by the better cI,s'
Z people, and the moro desirable it NAV ho in
@ pecunlary point of view, the more unscrnn,,a.
$ the methods that many aspirants VIII onnrnn
obtain the prize. r'09
The Old South Historical Collec,;o,
J, Boston has recently been enriched bv n
: sword worn ut the hatttle or D..