Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-11-28

. News and Gossip.
q 1t is umored that England has sent an ultmatun
to Russia.
The pope has suspended audiences, because 0
his feeble condition.
y At Montreal the Canadian Building Society ha
l. gone into liquidation.
The devastations of famine continue through Thu
northern provinces OF China.
y The question, "Who inaugurated Fashions - il
likely TO be decided in favor Of Eve, for Autumn.
Mrs, George II. Thompson sister oil Senator Sar
gent of California, committed suicide at Lowell
7 Mass, Saturday.
: Europe, too, has been having shocks of earth.
quake, Lisbon and Geneva being chiefly affected,
but no damage done in either place
The Old medical college at Geneva, n. Y, was
burned Tuesday night, 2Oth inst, with valuable
, collection of medical charts, implements, etc.
The discovery of "vauable beds of fossil insects ,
in the Rocky Mountain region is reported What
gives value to these fossil bed-bugs is not stated.
A Newark, n. j. schoolgirl named Gauss, swal.
lowed her shawl-pin, three inches long, few days,
ago, and it is thought that the result will be fatal
The report that the President has expressed a
determination to veto the silver bill is reiterated by
the Washington correspondent of the New York
Evening Post
PrOiessOr-' In one evening counted twenty.
seven mceors sitting on my piazza" Glass cxpics-
ses great astonishment at the socable character of
heavenly bodies.
Two men entered the house Of John Ruttle, a
laImer near Carlton Place, Ont, on the 10Th, fred
five shots and threatened the lives of the family.
They carried OF $1,000 in gold, silver and bills.
AT Batavia, Ohio, Charles E. Dommett, deputy
auditor, was arrested on Friday, charged with rob.
bling the county treasury of S?4 600 a month ago
He was committed to jail in default of $4,000 bail
Owing to the prevalence of scarlet fever at Wei.
lesley College, near Boston, the authorities have
suspended the school, portion of the young
ladies have gone to their homes. About thirty are
sick.
A prairie fire at Grand Island, Nob., last week
destroyed the house and barn of William Parks,
burning to death Mrs arks, as she was trying to
rescue the horses, and probably fatally burning
child who was in the house.
A letter to Senator Morton has lust been received
from his son up in Alaska, who has been danger
ously i'll, dated October Sth, and informing him that
he was recovering Neither father nor son was al
lowed to know of the others sickness
The tritl of DR.. Thomas S. Lambert. late nrosi.
dent Of the Popular Life Insurance Comnanv q,
New York, for perjury, has been postponed, the
accused being i'll from nervous prostratton. Mr.
case, OF the Security Company, is also too III TO he
brought into court for sentence.
Henry German, Mormon saint who has been in
the habit of horsewhppng his hllfa dozen wives
individually, attempted to punish them in n hunch
the other day, when they turned up1n him and he
was so badly bruised, scratched and bitten tina,
his life was dcspaired of for a time.
There is trouble at Union College between tn,
secret ana an l-secret societies. senior an,
sophomore have been expelled, and more are ex.
pected 10 follow. The classes have held meetings
at which all class officers who were members of tho
an'Esecret fraternity were deposed.
! AtMorisvIlIe, Penn, village of 1000 mn ,bit
ants under the labors of the Murphy Club. ever,
hotel ana saloon, except one, has been closed. and
almost every one has signed the pledge. The ~.
viValists Gavea large torchlight parade. Mopdor
hisht Win about OJO men in line, and boats 1lleu
win young iadles, singing temperance songs
That 5000 OU fire which DESTROYED ruh,or Ca,
tory at New Haven, Wednesday, bappenc1 ot a
most embarrassing time. 1t broke ont and jeaad
the eiloIts made to put 1t out, Just as tho suno,i,
tendent ana president of the BOARD oF Ei,o ,,,,'
n'Ssiohers were on their way through the bnil1po
showing party of visiting dremen that il was fro
proof. ""' me-
CoVington, Ky" is having Il hard time with i,s
olueials' few months ago Treasurer It,vos ,,,nl
oiscoVered to be defaulter for large sum. soo,
"''ef, Clly Clerk Sanford forged checks and ro,so,
certificates, and fed; and now William q S,ono
VINO had 0een elected treasurer as a rotor,per ~,
c'']ens ticket is found to have stolen com,
$4,000. So'n'
inc "llorsesb hoe" at Niagara, is now rigb,
angie Inc rocks in the centre have been o,,o,,
away from year to year. and now the side walls M.
oi"'nol''H' On Saturday large section Of rocl
toward Tue Canada shore fell with a tremerdo,g
CRASH anu during the night a still laronr ,roo ,
do"n' The falls now wear new face and ,a.i,,,
VIII undoubtedly be charged % cents evt,o no,,
season. ''" next |
=" '0- IL was ascertained that out of 90 man ,,,h
p"ssc" along leading London thoropobt,ro 10 |
ii'" oo'n hahds IN their pockets and had ono ",
'o"s "i'erward tho wearing of gloves cana t,,,
i'S"'oh now that has gone outagan, and tbohonI.
pass m"ch OF their time in the pockets. Soma yoa'
"So Tue present headmaster of Harrow scbooI
l"ne'e Byron Peel, Palmcrston aud morv o,ha,
celebrities were educated), ordered MI tho H p
pockets to be sewn up. :" '"' ooyS
n,'nop ''lbert Haven galauty describos ,h,
" '''" van COtt as " lair to look unon. or lo..
l"II form of small, delicate features ,,r, So
an' poA'on "0eye OF melting blue, with the boise
aI,, e"so VI queen ora drawing room.n IEe also
snvs '''r "'ow taste in dress, which he
whit hoso e'sS"nt 70 TIC ton of proprety, butno
in ton ny S Omo NOT one lady thousand, if one
1o n,o noSS"uu' equals her in that French how.,o
and general" '"uWlJual