Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-05

Noiu was lCPOlGeu' IoSC6ruttyI III lUO LIZ
-- the lowest point since war.
The Maine election, for Governor and
Legislature, takes place Monday, Septem-
Der 10.
William Clough, brother of John
Clough of East Montpelier, arrived home
'ot week after seventeen years absence
at sea.
Another Charlie Ross has been found
who is said to resemble the lost boy very
much but Mr.. Ross declares on seeing him
that he is not his son.
The old stone paper mill known as the
CIaremont manufacturing company at
Claremont, n H., was burned Sunday
night. The bindery and printing depart
mcnts were saved. The cause of the fire
is unknown. Loss $4,000, fully insured.
Capt. Jonathan Walker, the hero of Mr.
Whittier's poem of 1.-The Man with the
Branded Hand" is living in extreme pov-
rrly in forlorn shanty on Black Lake, in
Michigan. He is scventy-nine years old
and probably still wears the scars of the
letters S.S."-slave stealer-in the palm
Of his right hand.
There was heavy snow storm on Mount
Washington, Sunday morning, with ther-
mometer at 81, at the Summit, and rain at
he base of the mountain, 1t was the first
snow storm on the summit since the 22d of
June. The month just passed was the first
August without snow storm there. for
years.
Brigham Young's death is traceable to
IN imprudent meal one hot day last week.
and might perhaps have been arrested if
he hadn't practised the doctrine he
preached of the uselessness of physicians
and the efficacy of the laying on of hands,
till the Gentle doctors, who were at last
called in by his family, found it too late
TO do anything for him.
Mrs. +. G. Fisher, of West Lebanon
N. H., was fatally burned Monday, while
endeavoring to kindle n fire in Il cooking
stove by the use of kerosene oil. Her
carelessness was rivaled by the presence
of mind of another woman in the house.
who heard Mrs. Fishers cries, came down
stairs. and seeing the awful character of
the accident, proceeded to go up stairs and
Jump from a chamber window fifteen feet
to the ground.
Our New York correspondent appears to
have broken out with quite perceptible
rash of telegraphic and express notions
Why, come TO think of it, can't the ma
tional government make of itself a SORT of
general "provider " for anything that any,
body wants. That would be 4 co.opero.
tive association worth having, and we
could have breakfast, dinner and simmer
officially "set;" man would know then
whether he was getting his moneys worth
for what taxes he pays in. But perbaps
there wouldn't be any taxes then-we
haven't studied the whole thing out.
The English, French and German who
have taken so much pains to kill off every
trace of the potato bug on its first ap-
pearance, will have their trouble for their
pains rs it went TO leave tracks, (and
they will not be pointing from the potato
field) To make matters worse parties in
this country are continually sending their
friends in the old country samples" of
the bugs in envelopes and boxes contain
ing from two or three to several dozen
The postal officials have orders on discov-
ering any OF these packages to have them
destroyed and they are cremated with as
much ceremony rs under the old plan our
government disposed of its greenbacks.
The WAR-The Russians still hold
SHAPh" 900 "uu ln0 1uIhS nave ceased
their fierce attacks there. But on Thurs
day Mehemet Ali's army made IN assault
on the Russians on the line of the river
Lom and drove them several miles to the
west toward Tirnova. The battle was
very severe, and three or four thousand
were lost on each side. Russian accounts
say they were outnur lbered but admit thew
were driven back.
Friday Osman Pasha made an attack on
the Russians near Plevna, at Pelisat. Ac-
counts of the Pelisat battle are conflicting
but the most probable of the stories is that
twenty-five thousand men were engaged
on each side and that after the Turks had
taken some of the Russian positions they
were finally repulsed.