Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-04-18
News and Gossip.
Ole Bull goes to Norway in May
ffunn want to lght 60 70 Europe.


tn with restored health.
w Tno postmaster General rules that sugar canno
a be sent by mail.
y ex-senator Logan is about to take up his resi-
u dence in COLORADO.
r Ole Bun despscs Wagncr's music, and calls /
n the music Of MURDER
k Goldman afraid.to-go-home' is the way they
i ,os,cnote senator Patterson in Washington.
,, The Massachusetts Legislature has finally appro
prIatcd $500 for the Bennington battle monument
If The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge
are now the only field marshalS in the BrltlSf
army.
Paul Morphy, the famous chess player, Is again
J. reportcd to be in a New orleans asylum, hopeless
!, ly insane
!. Mrs Kate Chasc.Sprague has begun to s7 in to
= Washington society for the first time since her
! fathers death.
About 1000 northern hostile Indians made form
al surrender ofarms, ponies, etc. to Cen Cfook At
the spotted TAN post on Sunday
Mrs. Muloch- Craik'5 husband is % years younger
than she She is now rich woman, having made
IL great dea OF money from her books.
Kate Caxton's continued escape from fires arc
wonderful. She will he fortunate indeed If good
luck follows her to the other word-lChlcag1
Tribune.
Charles Fairbanks, of London, England, mem
Der of the Vermont family, has given $l5,OOO 10
nn.ha new hall Tor women students at DIuly
College Springfield, Missouri
man named Lawless, temporarily employed as
brakeman on the o. & L. Z. railroad, was run over
| I'm. It.n
remains were taken TO Chazy.
Mr.. Cox dosnt appear to be making much head
way in securing the Speakershp. The impression
pravs that the Samuel who writes Randall as the
rest Of his name will catch that plum.
wild hogs abound in the tule lands of San Joa.
qnin, Cal. They were doubtless originally propagat |
ed from domestic stock that have become as wild
us the famous game nlesting the Black forest.
DR.. n. II. Cary, an old man of u and the father
of Miss Annie ouise Cary, has just died in Name
of cancer in the cheek. H1 hal another musical
daughter wh) gave at one time great promise Of
excelency in the art.
man lectured in Brooklyn the other evening
in vndicaton Of Judas The audience consisted
of three men, one woman and boy indicating that
Judas has fewer friends in Brooklyn than would
naturally be expected.
Chicago has a ncws.girl, about II years Old who
has male money enough selling papers to lurns",
a comfortable home and buy piano. Her name i
Nette, and she can yell louder and fight longer
than any Dews.b boy in town.
Every one Of the cabinet has great big mouths,
nose and ears The size Of the II ears and seven
noses Ithe cabinet is something remarkable. Mr.
Evalts'5 ears and nose, compared with his body,
are immense. IL Mary Clemmer.
Should Dr. Mary Walker go to Europe on the sly
with member of the old Tammany ring she may
be recognized, not by " a wart two inches below
her lett ear" but by the manner in which she
bitches up her trousers Norr. Herald.
woman in Omaha recently swallowed gaiter
button and was choked nearly to death; and tive
have said thousand times, - says the Burlington
HawEeye, &" that some serious trouble would yet
come ofths custom of Omaha women unbutonng
their shoes with their teeth"
They had saucy prisoner up before the Paris
police court the other day The president, quest
-ioning him, said "Your name?" descend
from the Crusaders " " Your age?" That of
owe and eternal youth" Your last residence?u
il Probably the Potter's Field
The Tribune thinks that Packard should give
need to the moral containe in the following little
was once courageous little bull
that obstinately refused to make way for ocomo.
tive 1t beloved and paved the ground, and
shook It's horns in an ostentaous way, but the re.
suit was little railroad hash.
According to letter from the Black Hills in a
Maine paper, golI, work and provision are none
of them very plenty, and our Consul General at
Melbourne writes home that no American should
go to Australia who hasn't money enough to BRING
him home next year. Tor he will surely want TO
come Thus is enterprise discouraged.
Maj Reno, recently sentenced by court.martial
at ST. Pau, Mimi, to dismis ial for insulting the
wife OF brother OH ser, has fOrwarle II the war
department a request fDr delay in presenting the
Ease to the president claiming that he has add.
lonal evidence which will tcnd to a mitigation Of
'ne sentence and MS request has been granted
John G. Bcrrian and wife, nee Alice sears, who
we're married in Jersey City month ago and left
or the West on their welding trip, with ELEGANT
Vardrobes and costly presents of tewery, rctnrp
'd to their home with all their propc,tv gone
Ihey were caught in the i've in the Southern II tr
1t St. Louis AMI barely escaped. They hala room
n the sixth story, and when the alarm was give, +
led in their night dresses leaving all their pro,.
lty. I
AseN-Prcsdent Gen, Grant IS sail to he an OK. d
eedingly difficult person to interview" WHOM. 81
oPorVe' taxes out his paper and pencil the General
NUS MS ups tightly and begins to occupg hmsrIr
'I'h MS correspondence. But when the rpnorter,s
lpIemehls "lsappear,and he takes ufr his business
AP'esSoh' the man of war begins 10 talk, appar. i
htly without suspectng tnat the man of i,urnn,sm
rs memory and an imagination. I
Thomas Sims, the fugitive slave who was SON, /,
"H " U't1I'dom III 1871, has been interv iewed in .
'S"NIIe' IL appears in the report Of the lnterview
'"' lc nehies the statement that General Devens p
use" money anu bought hifs reedom, and hewas n,
eed until lsG} when he entered the Fe ler,I u,ee :
' "sS'Ss!pl' This report conveys a wrong i'm l.
'eSSoh' 1t has never been stated that t,ener.,l -
I'e"9 i"is1u money and bought his freedom A It
o'o''Pu'h lof This purpose WAS stated and
''ens subscribed the Whole amount, and then II ~
70 'o""u tnat SIMS m stcr positively refused IA S.
II MN Tor the purpose of being set free. a
Ihe remarkable millness and s,Inhri,y ~ A.
'o WINTER ana Sprn produce marked effect on IL
uc''h'lst'' In The city of New York there a
re only 0V2 deaths from January to NnrirI
'o'l less lhan in 1876, 1910 less than in lS57 OK r.
50 Wah In 1873. There were only five dc.tns a.
u" smallpox in three months, the smallest nrn, 81
III any hrst quarter for years. Since 1874 thu, l3
We Oeeh 2O01OO persons gratutously y,eci,atol ,,t
u inc city has been well repaid in the decro,s Isl
smallpox and the paupersm which that ,,,.oaso Ii
TAILS II the street-cearng were now atierdod an
""u "ecehcy New York would rank pretty wen lin