Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-16
Nows and GOssip.

News and Gossip.
The peach crop of the Delaware pe'''''"'" %
/ t;mated at seven million baskets
\ Aner two years. consideration Barnum mas Oh
s,rod 900 reward for the return OF Chare RUSS
C.o,hic-tet all the school-teachers put on all
| ,,o hIactboards ofthe land: "It-is-nlcer-to-
S sell-wheat- -to-dghl'
S A how named uudspclh shot himself la'ally' IN
I Mn, yo,k on Monday. lie had been corIec'eu loi
STAYING out nights and reading trashy e'"'"''
A remarkable tidal wave came in at GavlVta' San
1uis Obispo county, Cal, the 10th. Inc sea rose
and fell about l2 feet three times. No damage re-
ported ,.
The G,qpAic says John 7. DAILY, of the Windsor
Iotc,. who committed Suicide had not slept
night since the Southern Hotel at ST. LOUIS was
burned.
Phillip Grouseau, Frenchman employed Oh
charcoal works near Berlin N Y, fell into Durn-
inc coal kiln Saturday night and was Durnel 10
death.
San Francisco's water supply lie running alarm
invIv short and the water company has imported
Eve thousand meters, and proposes to sell water
by the gallon
I'm to Saturday last Mossrs Hathaway Pond
of the Boston Lyceum Bureau had paid Henry
Ward Bcechor 800 as his portion Of the pro-
ceeds of this seasons lectures.
4 solution of pearlash in water thrown upon
fire extinguishcs it instantly. The proportion is
four ounces, dissolved in hot water, and then
poured into bucket of common water
The New York police found John Brown, his
wife and child, starving in a tenement, with an in
FAINT aged eighteen months, lamtshcd to DEATH
The family had eaten nothing for four days
The Alaska Indians have grown extremely bold
since the withdrawal of the troops. They now
stand on the shore and make faces at the revenue
cutter every time she steams along the coast
Mrs. Ralston, widow of the California banker,
has married in Paris a man named Candor. lie is
an American by birth, but long resident abroad;
aud their future home will probably be LONDON or
Paris.
The Great Eastern, the enormous vessel that has
thus far proved an Improbable curiosity is to be
transformed into huge floating refrigerator, and
used in the conveyance of American meat to Eng
| land.
A Congressional commission are gathering grass
hopder data the farmers are gathering grasshop
pers, and the grasshoppcrs are gathering the crops
out west. The odds are three to one on the grass
hoppers.
A Mrs. Batchelder of Scousvillc, Va married
when 10 years old her daughter, born year after,
also married at 10; and few days ago the daugh
ter bore son, making Mrs. BatChedcr grand.
mother a, IS.
Anthony Allison confederate soldier who lost
track Of his family during the war, while he was
confined in Northern prison, and has been look
ing for them ever since, found them the other day
at Rising Fawn, Tenn.-aud his wife hadn't mar.
ried another man.
Pondexter L lmonson, who was to be hanged to.
day at Bloomfield Stoddard county, Mo-, has been
respited until July ID by Gov. Phelps. Edmondson
was convicted on crcumstantia evidence, aud tits
said that dying man has confessed that he com.
mttcd the murder. An investigation will be made,
A mockng bird entered Methodist church at
Jackson, Tenn, the other Sunday, and after cir.
cling around the room, lit on the railing of the al
tar, where it sat in attentive silence till the close Of
the Sermon when it warbled some of its sweetest
notes and sailed away.
Irrigation is nowhere else in the United States So
extensively practiced as in California, and there it
is, perhaps, carried TO an improbable excess. A
scheme for main canal through several counties
with the necessary branches, will entail cost o
S3j on every acre Of land affected.
female physician has been arrested in Brooklyn
for pouring hot water down the back of SINAI
boy. 1t was not administered as a remedy for an,
ailment of the child, but to crafty spite against
his mother. 1t was sort of aopathic treatment
that is, intended to opera on another person.
The debates in the British Parliament over Mr.
Gladstpne's resolutions, give little light as to uha
the British interests require Great Britain to do in
the affairs of Turkey. Great reserve is maintained
on this point, both on the part of the Ministry ant
of its majority in the House of Commons.
President Hayes is to have quaint giGt freu
the enth siastic residents of Apple Greek, Ohio
This is large rustic armchair constructed of an
pe-branches On nearly every piece of the cha il
is cut legend" South Carolina" Louisiana. -
Reconstruction " Peace Policy" Fifteenth
Amendment" &c.
A physician has recently died at Portsmouth, n
H. who graduated at Harvard and afterwards
studied in Paris, but never had but one patient, fol
cents lie was never married, and lived to b,
nearly four score years. leaving fortune OF 300.
0Ol.
There is one man in Washington who is yetv in
dgnant over the removal of George II. Butlpr n,
special agent OF the post-onice department. and h.
Is an oilice-broker. After Georges appointment
ne lelt The need Of some money, and an accommr.
datng broker cashod an order for two months ad
vance pay. The broker now finds himself mipus
about one months salary
a silly fellow in San Francisco recently cot tb,
"o's' OIL MS own practical joke. He advertised il
'io o"n francisco newspapers for one thousand
aoie-oouled men, to receive $3.50 per day, Tv,
thousand unemployed workmen assembled ber,r,
tle Mechanlcs' Exchange at the appoipte, ,,me
Nuen 'hey saw that they were heartesslv bnoval
tneV marched to the City Hall and asted ~,
mayor u discover the author of the boax III,
la''er was arrested next day Just after he hal n,i
ior an awe tlsement Offering twenty. five don,,
reward Tor information regarding the author ot ,,
hoax. u "''
Is Chicago getting jealous Of New York an1 ,.,
ing to poison its people? Five carloads or ,iroao
, rom The metropolis of the lakes have hocn oo,,
demned by the Board Of Health oftho ronin ,,,,
because it is dangerous to health ho;,, ,,.;
adHllerated with sulphuric acid and lime ~ @
s'.iIU U'er n.ty'lour and halfgrans ofanhydrou
sulphur" acld to the gallon. Five cents, worth a
vi vi Vtrol gives strength to barrel of VERY moo
vinegar ana 1t can be sold cheap, but the ho,rI =
"'"''u very truly says it is "a fraud upon co,,
uierce anu dangerous substitute for yincgor Nv,
sn"' nave TO look out what we buy that coo,os ,..
Chicago 1t is wicked place. ''O''
inc great sea-'erpent was stranded q, oh
ecoIland on April rs. The boatmen bco1o5 80"
Oh Tue rinemen fired at him, and the native
on Inc peach and gazed Finally he ran o,..a "
Io"t OIL hoteI' and as his tail swept tho boa, 49,
sinng pebbles in all direc tons, smasb,n "'''
anu puncturing heads, the natives retroa,o
,h.a,. " u ave man waded through the surf and
N s,". "-'po "'ouhu The monsters head, So tbot
,,,,.'. "s '''0u couIu drag him ashore above b,,h
w"'o' marx Inc sea-serpent was then me,snroi
e was ivl rect long and IL feet in circpr, Coroso
@sue mlckest part; had pair of fins foo, NV
'eet across at the sides, and 4 dorso, H. =, ~
10 ,eet IN length; had small, elopgato1 o.n. = y,
ss q rect oehind; and consisted m,inI,, 80 '''
rines. VI "'o BRUSH ma.
III. i'@ ABOUT time that the prejudice apains, ,....
"UPpers Us lood was done away with in ~, e."'a
al 'nat Is required to transform lana or west
'h'o one OF iatness is that the ndnoro,, '"ue
Vi humanity that dwell upon the earth ~ Ia eo''"en'
ovoro p",' y, ~ o'orrun by grasshoppors. sbo,l1
'uoi Squeamlshness and not feel 50 p,naS
$50 p'op"ets' patrarchs and apostles mat tSo'
villa I Ta onJoy good square meal of locnsts MI
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