Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-12-26
Tia, the Russians have captr

Sitting Bull is said to have crossed inc Oo'uo''
and begun depredations.
General Butler regards his awful silence rs
Joke The public prefers the old kind, General
Alabama papers announce that the mignonetle
is in blossom and the strawberries are ripe
James Gordon Bennett is reported to be engaged
to a handsome young French Countess, res iding III
Paris.
Diptheria is ratgng extensively in Plattsburgh
and there has been number of deaths from the
disease.
The New York combination of coal managers mas
resulted in an advance of fifty cents per ton on all
grades.
Tho time is at hand, says an exchange when inc
frost on the milkman's moustache chls Inc hlreu
girl to the heart
A state convention was held in Baltimore MA,
the Dist to devise method for Kidding the state u
trampe and vagrants.
MIR. voorhees, is dcvoting the recess to inc eVoi"'
ton of the "greatest effort of his life" on NANCE
Put out the storm signal.
The regulators are extremely busy in all palts
of the country trying to create opinion in favor OIL
under.weight silver dollars.
Foreign ad vices announce that Captain Boy'oh
has been swimming on the River Sommc' We Rhe"
that he was some on swimming
The steamer Huntsville, Capt. FarcIpth rom
savannah for New York 100 tons, was Ourhco at
sea the 18Th, but no lives were lost
Mr.. Halslcad dominates the truly good Deaco'
smith for Postmaster of Cincinnati, anu inc Dc"
con rctorls that Mr.. IIalstcad is crazy
The President is studying the Texas and Paclh'
question, and is reported to be doubtful ol t"'
czucdlency of Il subsidy TO that enterprise
Work has been resumed on five of the nine sec
sections of the Ltchne canal Of Canada, the CON
tractors having yielded to the strikers demands
A white man who came to san Francisco nin'
years ago with japanese wife is dying by mche
from lepiosy. His wife died Of the same disease
Donald Mckay, who won fame by capturing tho
Modoc chief Captain Jack, was himself captu'e'
by the Philadelphia police for being as drunk as
halter.
The French chamber of deputies on Saturday
voted the four direct taxes of the budget, and the
republican left will ask general amnesty for pres
Offences.
A Malone jury are accredited with rendering tn
following verdict over merchant found dead
" Died by the visitation of God in natural way
otherwise"
A striking result of the closing Of bar rooms fol-
three Sundays, in New York, was an almost ehIlt
absence on those days Of crimes arising IRON
drunkenness.
The Texas fever, which broke out in Georgia
year or two ago, Still RACES, and scarcely day
has passed for month that a carload OF enligran
l has not left the Atlanta depot,
Flora Temple, thu famous trotter, is dead, agc'
81 years. She dies without an heir. Her best time
, made at Kalamazoo, Mich was 2:l0H, which wa
, then considered something wonderful
2 Samuel Wilt, in digging post hole ner Some
vile, n D., the other day, found an earthern ia
= containing 200 gold AM silver dollars, mosti!
= Mexican The newest one was dated l15.
l William G. Gilman has been given a position
g the hospital at Auburn prison. His vile has IT
S covered from her mental shock. After visit
1 her husband she has started lie anew in Me-
York
n john Bright said lately that " You might almo
n as well ask spider to give up weaving his weD,C
l. to destroy that he had woven as to ask the gree
Il body of lawyers to consent to simplicity an
n publication OF the law"
: DR.. Holland, editor orScribner speaks right GU
:. One If. S, Kellogg sent an "original" poem whc
was stolen bodily, and Dr. IL. calls him 'literal
J. thiefand a swindlcr" This has the merit OF plan
&c ness, and will be wholesome
= Captain Virgins, an Englishman just rcturnt
e from the Jenisei aud Obi rivers, in Siberia, repol
that route is practicable to the north pole, WI
open sea all the way. lie also reports that there
&c an immense commerce in Siberia from China
y Sitting Bull does anything but sit" He refus
IL to sit still, while the deness and chills OF Can
3 dian winter gather about him, and has taken up
" march, we lear, for the, to him, Sunny Souli
OF and may soon be heard from out on the frontier
n Thurow Weed conGesses that he was in crl
II about the demoneuzng OF silver Now let Slanl
~ Matthews, Senator Jones, et al, take the noor il
confess their sins, (Which are many. The good
law is ole that conlesscth and forsakcth shall ii
. mercy"
~ Atthe recent silver wedding of Mr. Crocker,
~ the Central Pacific railroad, one of san Franc isc
Va richest men, his wife wore dress of silver b
j., cple and gauze with gude, necklace con
= earrings and fan chatclaine OF magnlhc
diamonds.
The mild fall and early winter have caused ma
freaks of nature. Persons in central New lC
W. picked a second crop OF Strawberries in NoVemb
he aud ON Wednesday last ProltStnc Of Glen
of Eal's gathered dandclon blossoms from the Ii
near that place.
>, silver dollars are getting 50 plenty down
Maine they don't know what to do with them |
"u collectors OltaXes are obliged to go about vii
~ wheebarrOw to transport Senator Jones lraI
n lent money. with 50 much money the "down.c
crs are not happy.
- The Georgia flrmcr who has carried on the pr
this year IS Mr. James H. BOOKER He raised 81
bales of cotton, twelve hundred bushels of &C
,st five hundred of potatoes, thousand Of oals
wheat, and twedly five hogs. The neWspal
IS chronicle this MS the greatest harvest by amy
ND man since the war
en- senator Stanley Matthews of Ohio, now in
IN York, expresses the belief that the SILVER
would be passed over Il veto in both houses, Ou
-" thinks 1t possible that compromise may resuI
of bill which shall seem less radical while in
an expressing quite as effectively the views of
-, friends of double sLanarl
.bo A Fond du Lac boy, who hal doubtless eau
an idea from the IN inner in which lm5on tied
'h- brands to foxes, AMI destroyed the Phlll5tu
)nS corn. poured kerosene ona dogs tail and ST
for burning The dog ran under a barn, and the |
II was onsumed-no insurance.
,es \ strange disorder has seized upon catt
,bn Cromwell and Rocky IIll, Conn 1t has many
one the symptoms Ofhydrophobia. The animals bC
M by jumping, moaning and believing; they s
~. worse and in three days they die. If approach
- they become furious and dangerous. All attaC
~ by the disease have died.
mi Anovc movement on the part oil COlorGd perS
,yo in Augusta, Ga. is the formation Of comp
lge WIN ca'aI Oh ni'y '''o"S"u| "o',s " Vo''
~ project is explained to be desire to proyiC
place OF employment for cOlorcd youths as sooi
they cease going to school.
ed They talk of erecting new State prison in "l
lol- State" in stone region, and have the "Doard
la work stone. But the project is not received
general favor, as the Clinton prison, in the
'So- region, proves a financial failure 1t would S
hly possible to make the prisoners earn Their be
-nw at least. if well managed.
all The Chicago Journal says it is a pity the hol
could not last a year, SO congressman could
'lu long vacation, which is very neatway of exp
IAN ing very common opinion. We have heard
The western hard-she who tried hard to get rid
,,o worthless coon skin, but could not do it. TIL
laI the situation of the American people just now
= = respect to Congress-