Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-13
News and Gossip.

Five daily papers, eib"N
The Murphy wave leaves only ten OUT u
u;na,v saloons which MIdjieIown hau " WEN
ago. ,oo,d detailed TO select
Lieutenant Fred Grant has been de'"neu - 81
mail route from the Missouri KlYer % INC jan
Hills. Io,, Tvlar.
Tobn TYLER. Jr.. son of the late President I!leI'
has been appointed inspector Of customs ~ M"
mond. ,rosforn
vast army Of potato-bugs has invaded western
vo-monrfrom New York by winning across LaAe
Champlain.
Tho town OF odensee, Denmark, has decided 70
orect a heroic statue to the memory ofHans Chri9u
ian Andersen.
nown in Newark, when they wantto find a
policeman they strike a trail of peanut sn"cA'' anu
follow it up.
victor Emanuel now receives a salary Of s!''o'
OO. The Parliament had to raise 1t IN order 10 pay
OF his debts.
Prof. Max Muller says that Prof. March Of Ia
fayette College, is " the best AnS'o-9aAon ''"0''
n the world"
The Oiman's Journal OF Butler, Pa, recon-
men,ls the culture of toals as antldote ior Tue PV-
tato bug nuisance
A Young man from Auburn, y. " who went 10
Texas his spring, has telegrapned nome l" !"
father, |" Fattel calf for one"
Major General John A.. Dix and IhuIlow "eed'
Of New YORK, regularly draw their pensions Oh .
per month as p~rivates 10 the war Of ISL
IIa Greeley that was, now Ida Smith, has achuu-
bv boy, who has just been christened at ChaPpaqua
and with the name of Horace G~reeley-smltI'
Theodore Tilton's AUTOGRAPH letter went begging
a sale in New York last week. 1t only brought H'e
cents-two cents less than George Francis Trans
New York handles about 5000 alligator skins per
annum. The market price for finished skins Is 80
to sls per dozen, with a somewhat higher price Tor
extra fine.
Three German girls went bathing IN the Muskln-
gum river near Lowell, o., the 5lot, and were all
drowned in the most approved 'Sunlay-school
book fashion.
Two men in Danbury, Conn let Young chickens
run in the fields where potatoes were planted No
bugs have appeared in those fields and the vines
are growing finely.
The British Courts have decided that a British
subject has a right tn get as drunk as he can in his
own house. There are at least 5000 Scotch decis-
ions on the point.
Alabama papers Indignantly deny the report
that Mr.. HARRISON, the colored contestant for Con
gress will be in danger of assassination if he re-
turns to his district.
Two little girls were comparing progress in cate
chism study. I've got to original sin, said one how
far have you got? Me? GA, Pm way beyond re-
dempton, said the other.
A correspondent Of the American Art journal
says that the girls of Cashmere make shawls WORTH
$4,000, and will show 3Ol distinct colors or shades
which we cannot make or even distinguish.
Dispatches from the West say that very heavy
rains have fallen in western Missouri and in Kan
sas during the past few days, and great damage
has been done to railroads, crops and ether prop
erty.
AT san Francisco, Friday, the nitro-glycerine
house of the Hercules Powder Works, situated IN
the hills back Of Golden Gate Park, blew up. The
workmen were absent at dinner and no lives were
J lost,
The far.seeing legislators Of Oregon, now pro
pose to license consumers. Every man who in
tends to drink intoxicating liquors will have to pay
IS for a license, and then he can get drunk as often
ss be likes.
A dispatch from Fall River, Mass, says: Sew
eral Vermont parties who have consigned goods to
the bogus firm of NJ. J. Dean It Co., have arrived
to look after their interests. The Shlpmnts oil
goods continue TO arrive.
a state exchange puts it thusly. "These are
the days when good, honest, ambitious men lean
on their hoe handles, at the rate Of fifteen cents an
: hour, on the road. Its strange that men Will be
perfectly honorable everywhere else, but will
, cheat the highway.
Nashville, Tenn, has been troubled for a year by
the presence OF burglars, and on Saturday night
vigilance m which had been formed, Il
punish the first thief caught, took from the police a
negro burglar who had been arrested in the act o
burglary and drowned him.
> The young men of Maysyille, an Ohio village, be
ing inclined toward economy, bought a large guam
tity of cloth at a wholesale price from a manuiac
lurer, and had it made into clothing for themselves
The uniformed visitor is surprised by The sight q
so many men dressed exactly alike, ami is led tC
believe that he is in some s~ocialistic community.
A burglar broke into a Kansas City house in
!, which Mrs, Gay was alone, and told her ifshc made
any noise, or attempted to get out of bed he woull
Kill h r. She was f l%ghtened, and did not speak OF
stlr Whlle ne PACKED hef sllVerware and jGWeiry fol
removl' Then, by way Of emphazing a partin.
injunction not to raise an alarm, he boxed her ears
, That mlde her SO aasry that she forgot h-r lea,
She jumped out of bed, knocked the burglar down
with a chair, pulled his HAIR, scratched his face
7 stamped on him, and yelled at the top Of her voice
\ police officer he rd the racket, and the badly in
, jured man was arrested.
This jim Hamilton and Gail Blame-who are the,
s anyway, and what relation are they to each Other
some think jim is his cousins wife; some that sh,
IS her brother-in-law; others still thar they ar,
bound together by the holy ties Of uncle. 1t is eve,
reported in some quarters that jim is an abbrevia
ton for Abigail Though this seems unlikely
II Is also said that there is a Dodge about it some
, where, but this is evidently a SANDER. Josef Med
OF Chicago, inquiries anxiously whether Jlmigai
: can sue and be sued for boxing his ears in such
= tempestuous manner. We understand that Gal
u Oodgeion is Abjim HambIaine's all eyed aunt, in
> this case the Chicago Tribune man is at her mere,
u tie law has no saving claws for his relief.