Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-09
News and Gossip.

Neal Dow is talking temperance in North Caro-.
lima.
Theodore Thomas is having triumphal tour in
the West.
frost in the lower counties of Illinois has dam
aged the fruit crops.
Col John Forsyth, the well known editor of the
Mobile Register, is dead.
A Buffalo man has been held in $500 bail for open
ing his wilc's letters.
1t is estma ed that s2,OOO,OOO of property is an
nually burned in New York cty-in cigars.
An Italian paper says that the people of the
United States are going to emigrate to Australia.
1t is stated that the Navy Department can sell i'll
large stock Of live oak for fully twice what it cost
The demand for posth cards continues to in.
crease monthly During April &c, 720 900 cards were
issued.
Wong Chin Foo, a Celestial only rs years of age
has come to New York to preach Confucius to tn,
Gothamites.
Morphine and opium have gone up to nearly
double the price before The outbreak of the Turco
Russian war.
n PlattsburSh meat market man has Just sued
ustomer for a meat bill which measures lust eieb
teen feet long
Bennington village has eleven " solid men :,
whose aggregate avordupOs Is 2,45O, or POP 81
pounds each
1t makes boy sick to look at the picture of q
rurk. and think what big pockets he could have il
his pantaloOns.
Think of having to record "l Battle on Noun
h,,1 10 4,
the Eastern war.
The body found at Euclid, o, thought to be tn,
remains Off p. Bliss, the Evangelist, proves to h,
not that of Mr.. Bliss.
Two OF the Bergh's officers who interfered I'M,
cock fight ON Long Island, on the night of Nav 4
were killed by rougha,
Every Turkish soldier has pipe with a stem
feet long, and people may get ready to read grea
deal about the smoke of battle.
Rev. Josiah Henson, the original "Uncle Tomn n
Mrs. Stoves novel, arrived at Boston on Sunday
on the steamer China, from Liverpool
From Dec, Ii, 1863, to March 81 last, the names y
over 100000 persons were placed on the register
habltual criminals in England and Wales.
The Iowa supreme court has shut down ON IN.
practice OF trying divorce cases before a referee
and in sists that they be heard in open court.
Oscar Barron, of White River junction. has boor
rendered, by Vce-Prcsident Wheeler, tho nestle,
of Senate restaurant keeper, at Washington.
Farmers are buying store cattle for GIture r,t,or
ing more freely this spring than last, under tho inn
preston that beef will probably contine to rise.
The body of a suicide found hanging in IN ola
house near Woodside, L. l., has been Teco0n,zod
as John T. DAILY, proprietor of the Windsor hotel
The New York grand jury has indicted three nor
sons for circulating false reports in Wall stree,
corning the Delaware and Hudson Canal comnan1,
1t is reported that Kate Claxton, tho actroso 49,
her husband, Dore Lyon, have been recorciIos
and that the cross suits for divorce Arc discon,.
ued.
Texas route agent who lost a package of ror,.
tered letters has been reinstated and Tho c,,t'o
VINO TOOK 1t Tor joke been held in $500 to stand
trial. W '''nu
Geo. w Hubbard, formerly of Cambrllve mo.
lately shot and killed at his home In Missorr, ~.
an ofhcer who came to arrest his son for somo ~
fence. D4' VI
The pew which President Hayes and romilv =,
cupy at the Foundry church, Washington. was sot
apart as the " Presidents pew nearly half ~
tury ago.
Anumber ofrailroad men are soon 10 lawn p,..
hampton, N Y, for Brazil Work ia ofrered ~ eS,
skilled men OF this class for three years. at hama
some salary. ''"u