Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07
Nnms and GOssip.

rboro ore nine yermonters in the Massachusetts
Legislature.
The London glass warehouse now auFei"ee
ton phened tumblers, winc and other glasses'
The editor of a Turkish journal in Constantine
ple has been whipped to death for telling the III u'n'
A son of the late Reverdy johnson is one OF The
extra policemen guarding the sittngs Of the elec'
toral commission.
Few mourn for Logan but the loss ofhis bright
gracious and diplomatic little wife is regretted IN
Washington society.
Ills claimed that an ineligible Democratic Elec-
tor has been found in West Virginia, he never haV-
ing been naluralzed'
No foreign count ever attracted half the attention
At Washington and throughout the country that our
American count does.
A sad story of the times: One thousand CASH
ers and bookkeepers answered New York adVer
tisement the other day.
In Philadelphia, yesterday, gang of counter
feiters were caught in the act of making spurious
coin. They had a complete set of Implements Tor
making ten cent pieces.
Snowman Dan Rice is unucky in his old age
Bankrupt in Pennsylvania, last year, he mas now
been sold out again by a Kentucky sheriff.
Morrison has come back from New Orleans dis
uusted TO find David Dudley Field bossing
things" and says every thing is going wrong.
The entire ice crop of the Hudson will be harvest
ed this week, amounting to over lOOo,OJO tons OF
the finest cc 1t is the largest crop ever gathered
Ice in the river at St. Louis ID roLiiDg quite rap
lilly, and it would take but moderate rise from
above to carry it out and open navigation TO Caro-
Secretary Morrill, has been pretty sick man,
thew say, sicker than the treasury department
people have been willing to admit, but he is now
better.
An escape of coal gas from stove in house IN
Jersey City the 3st fatally affected a young man
named Cassidy, and his father and mother are not
expected to survive.
There is strong impression on the minds Of
some wel.informcd and observant members of
Congress, that the democrats will make their chief
tight on Florada and Oregon.
When Charles O'Conor was sick, the doctors
said he must die, but he said he would get WELL
Alleck stephenss doctors say he will get we'll but
he insists that he is going to die
All the troops that were sent to South Carolina
have left but two companies, one of which still re-
mains in the state house. And they say Chamber
hin is trying 10 sell his house in Columbia
Maggie Mitchell had narrow escape in st.
Louis, lest week. AS the curtain dropped, a
chandelier fill, narrowly missing her head, and
making hole in the stage close by her.
1t is usually the boys themselves who are the
IN n in I,yltiDoOrn
last week, Joseph Rogers, an old man OF a, was
run over and killed by sled load of coasters.
Gov. Tilden granted 2l2 pardons during his two
years in Office, which is just about the average of
late years. Fenton granted the most of recent
Govcrnors-3l3 in his first term and $50 in his Sec
ond and DIX the least-li4.
The nearer the 4th of March comes, the more
anxious does Grant grow to get out OF the White
House. rhe next four weeks" he told Aeck
stephens, on Saturday, will be very long to me,
and am impatient for the end"
Give Logan the credit of doing the good he did.
The Army and Navy Journal says: There are not
many in the army "who will weep for Logrn now"
One thing, however, he deserves credit for-the
present pay sysem, which is the best the army has
ever had.
The total number Of Indians living in New York
State is given at 503i. They are all remnants OF
the old Six Nations They have thirty.one schools
and occupy reservations at Catarausus, Alegany,
Cornplantcr, Oil Springs, Tonawanda, Tuscarora
Oneida, Onondage, and St. Regis,
Mr.. Frederick Douglass says in private letter
from Southwestern Missouri: " Yesterday (24th)
at Springfield, was invited into tue kitchen to get
my breakfast This was little too much and /
did not go. The South is still the hell black South
and will remain so for good while longer"
Wit from the New York Evening POST The
prophets OF evil saw in the presidential compiled
ton The seeds of ruin to republican institutions !;
and they were right in part The two houses oil
Congress are actually making a count and from
counts the road is short to earls, dukes and kings
The Washington bellies ule pouting because
Duke Alexis is not likely to dfTuse his gaantries
at the capitol. The grand duke is the flag officer
OF the squadron now at Norfolk, and he think it
does not comport with the etiquette OF the Russian
navy to have the flagship remain for any time npon
the shore.
There Is some complaint from Illinois, after all
at Judge Davs's election to the United States
senate. 1t comes mainly from the democrats.
They are unable to discover when, for what, and
in what way, he ever shovel any sympathy with
the party, or ever was anything in politics but first
an old wing and then republican,
WHAT is DONE WITH THE DIRTY SUGAR,-Special
treasury agents have discovered system of sugar
gSlin5, from vessels unloading at Brooklyn
The investigation also veloped the fact that the
dirty sugar swept up after cargo is unloaded is
sold 10 the confcctioners, and that the bige water
from the vessels is bought for use in he manufac.
sure of vinegar.