Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-04-25

liabilities and microscopic sssets.
| A largo amount of counterfeit silver coin is in
circulation throughout the country, some Oh WHICH
IA so good as to be hardly detected.
The United States consul at Acapulco, Mexico
recently imprisoned by the revolutionary authori-
tics of that place, has been released
Miss Anna Louise Cary was baptized PLAIN Ann
rorvi the middle name has been inserted and the
given name altered as giving pleasanter erect
RAYMOND Rubee, while walking with his sister
in Blocker street, New York, Saturday night, was
stabbed five times by Andrew Guzman, his sisters
lover
Father Lynch, vicar general of the diocese ct
Vermont has gone to Rome to take part in the eel
ebraton of the 5Oth anniversary of the pope's eps-
copate.
The engineers and nremen of the railroads GEN.
tering in New York, have adopted resolutions of
sympathy and support of the Reading railroad
striking engineers.
It is said that the three wives OF Sir Jung Baha-
door, late Prime Minister and real ruler of the
independent realm of Nepaul, were burned on the
funeral pyre with his body.
There is classical precedent for Anna Dckin-
sons attack on her critics. Michael Angelo threw
a handful of marble dust in the eyes of man who
dared to crlcise his " David"
Mr. William V. Bowen fell dead at a prayer meet
ing in Chelsea Mass on Friday evening. He had
lust been speaking, and his last words had been
" And the Father received him"
Secretary Evarts in accepting the portfolio of the
state department stipulated that he shud appear
as counsel in all cases before the supreme court in
which he had accepted retainers.
ragged old satchcl, kicking around n Portland
hotel for month, was found to contain over
$1,000 in cash. and hundreds of Portlandcrs are
mad because they were so honest.
COL John W. Dix, son of xGoyCrnor Dix OF
New York, is dead. He was secretary of legation
with his father in Paris, and private secretary al
Albany while his father was governor.
At the graduating exercises Of the Hartford
Conn, High School, Whang Kai Kah, one of the
Chinese boys now being educated in this country,
took second prize in defamation over six Amer
lean boy competitors.
Mrs. George Kidd ard Mrs. IIcker of Aylmer,
Ont, were kndlng a Are with coal.oil the Goth
when the can exploded and they were fearfully
burned. Mrs. Kidd died soon after, and Mrs. Hill
ticker cannot recover.
The schooner S. " Il. Watson cleared the 18th,
from Buffalo for Toledo, being the nrst vessel
between the two ports this season. The first boat
last year left May Is. The lakes were clear of ice
except in the neghborhood Of Eric, Pa.
woman in Springfield, Mass, who appealed
against Police Court fine of one dollar for keep
ing an unlicensed dog, was kept in Jail two months
in default OF bonds, and was only above to de
part on the payment of the dollar and costs.
| In Boston, Saturday, Dudley Kmball, aged 6
and Stephen Cox, aged I, quarreled at play, wher
Klmball, saying " [ will fix YOU" went home, pro
cured his fathers revolver, and shot Cox through
the temples, the latter dying within two hours.
the graduating class at West Point military AGA
deny this year numbers Il members, being thu
largest class ever graduated from the institution
There are but As vacancies in the army. and conse
quently 30 oflhe graduates will be appointed brev,
2d lieutenant as vacancies occur.
safety envelope to prevent tampering has beer
| devised. On the flap the words attempt Il
open are printed with double set of chemicals
the first impression containing nulgalls and thu
second green vitrol. If the flap be steamed o
moistened in any way the magic printing will an
pear.
Or the Prince Of Wales sons, only Prince George
is intended for the naval profession, although boil
the two elder are undergoing instruction on thu
britannia training ship 1t is said that there is
good deal of tagging on the ship, and the two
young Princes will have to learn to he ordered
about.
| when Dean Stanley appeared to deliver the pant
ing address of the late graduating theological clas
IN St. Andrews University, Edinburgh, the mlur,
pastors struck up the song, Hes Jolly goo,
Fellow" and whenever in the course of his addres,
the Dean quoted Latin, the students cried out
Translate, TRANSLATED"
Not long since woman died in the Royal ln(lrm
ary, at WreXham, alter suffering for about montl
from Judgement in The passage of her throat of
some artificial teeth which she had accidental,
| swallowed in her sleep. The teeth were recovered
and, IN consequence of this, Inflammation set in
which gave rise TO an bcess in the woman,s lunrs
resulting in death.
lightning struck ii tank containing q 900 barrels
Oh OIL on the IIoulman farm in the petroleum re
sloh OIL bnller county, Pa, on the 18th, tearing 4
70 p'eces' burning the oil and setting fire to tw,
other tanks; and one, containing - 900 barrels
was destroyed, but the other was extinguisheJ h,
sIeam' The burning oil ran down the creek n m lie
destroying everything in It's course.
h''le glrl named Burns, eight years Old WA
Killed by the ears at Cincinnati, the other d,v
Wmie trying to save her two sisters, vounqnr t,a,
erseh from similar fate The two were n,ovin,
on The railroad track and did not noticc tho n =
preaching train, when the little girl seen, II, al
peril, rushed out of the house. dragged hos 49,.
"''' '"e o'ne' from tue track but had not time Il
save neFSeIl anu was almost instantly killed.
French Canadian boy, Ii years Old, Will,
asleep in a car on the Central Vermont R,i,roa :,
the other night walked to the platform and inmno,
ou "hiIe Inc train was running at full speed II,
was not missed for some time, then the ,roi, ,o,
""oAeu carefully up to the point where he was su,
Poseu 10 nave lelt the train but nothius was ropn,
vi hih until the train reached the next station
"nere Inc boy was found waiting and entirelr mn
harmed. ''S "'i
inc disadvantage of wearing false hair wa,
p"ui"i'y Illustrated at Millcrsvne, Pa, the otbo
u"y' BOAT IN which two young ladies' and t,y,
yous men were passengers, capsized snI1onlr
ana one Of the ladies sank ont of .i-t,,
AS she reappeared one of the men prssnod H..
"at' which came of. The lady sank. and IN h.
second appearance Jared no better. for tbis ,i.,,
he frightened youth caught her by her hair ,rh;op
oeinS lalse, came of in his hands, and dow,, Oh,
went again AT last. however, she was coucht l.,
ner real hair and dragged aboard the hoo, a,o'
having had what may properly he caIlo1 % N.Y.
breadth escape. ''" ''"'''
Inc French papers describe an invention =.
uriVlns horse by electricity The coacbm"n - =.
nave under MS scat an electromagnetic annor,,,s
winch he works by little handle One ,,, "s" :
carried through the rein to the bit and corn,a,
inc crupper, 80 that a currentonce SGT mn "
entre length of the animal along Tho 9Se' 'u'
' Suu''en shock WILL we are gravey assured s,o'
.ne most violent runaway OF the most obstin
J'ooer' Inc creature, however strong and yioo,,
transformed into sort of molten siye borso vs.
WOOD with the feet firmly nailed tn tbo -
|uFlouSly enough, the opposite effect NAV ho ,'.
u"ool Oy succession of small shocks, linda ,bo
nhnence of those the veriest screw can ho ue, 'uo
eu with Vigor aud fire indescrlbablo '"''"
Inc house at southvernon owned bv II. n roo,.
enough OF Easthampton, Mass, and oco,,,,,N oOV'