Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-02-20
Nnws and Gossip.

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Atoban, West Highland of Scotland, "s .ot 'I 1%e
:, roirod on 29I DAYS out of the 30o' anu w
noonle complained that the crops were not s0O''
lam Loodreau, resident Of New York. is IN
N ak this country to help him coHect
n claim of slOO, 900 from the Government u
Peru. ,,.-
In an old pincushion belonging to tue lae " esn
Oliver Jewell of CazenoYa' N \" were lo"''N
needles, 10 worsted needles, Is darh'nS h'''''''
and 80 pins.
.,witbdraw from the BROTHERHOOD within hve
ors mr. leove the road" was an order issued ny Iho
central Railroad of New Jersey, Friday to ens'-
noers who are members of the brotherhood
A fisherman near Palmyra, N. " who caught
grasshoppers, last summer, snd preserved 'nem ny
dining each one in gum arabic is having wonder
O success in fishing through the ice with his novel
bait.
A Young man of 81 went to Texas last March and
ia already the proprietor of stock iarm' WIN
which was conveyed also ready-made fanny
consisting of one wife, seven children anu
mother.in.law.
Doorkeeper Polk seems to he typical demo-
cratic reCormcr. lie not only redoubled the law
ruI number of pages for the house, but he found
room on ths.,tay-roll for his son and daughter
Thelatter did her work at home, but drew her pay
with beautiful regularity.
Barnum has been defeated in Cincinnati law
srit brought by rivals in the show business, who
have secured a verdict of 100000. 1t was claimed
nv the plaintiffs that Barnum drove them into
bankruptcy by announcing. wherever they WENT
.,t.;t IL, a NUnriblnge
his own
Mrs, John Newcomb of WatcrtOwn, Mass, put
her eleven year old gir and eight year old boy to
bed without kissing them because they had been
naughty, and upon waking up the next morning.
fonnd that they had taken the money in their saw
ings bank and started Off for some blessed region
where inhuman mothers are unknown.
John +. Abies, over 60 years old, was hanged at
Carthage, Mo-, Friday, for killing John I. Lane
paramour of his young wife, in Mcdonald county,
in April 1874. The execution was witnessed by
several thousand people. Beavens, who murdered
Sewell at New Liberty church, Ind, was hanged at
Madison, Friday, privately. lie made full con-
lesson Of his guilt.
Rome, on the days Immediately preceding VIC
tor Emanuep5 funeral was probably fuller than it
has been for centuries The hotels and cafes were
allowed to remain open all night. Many Of the
troops were quartered in the suppressed monas-
teries The colosseum presented strange sight,
with the soldiers camping around their watch-hres
and the horses tehered under the tiers of the vast
ampiheatre.
A horrible affair occurred at wedding at
Choctaw Bluffs Ala, few days ago. Two men
named smith and johnson got to quarrcling over
toast johnson was knocked down several times
and Smith stabbed in the abdomen and the BRIDE
groom was mortally wounded by bullet from
Smiths pistol which was intended for johnson.
Smith then leaned against the WALL faint from his
wound, when johnson stealthlly approached him
and blew his brains out.
The mercantile agency, of which the leading
members, Fause and Horsberger are now under
arrest, existed only for swndling purposes, and
had sub.agencies 10 various parts of the country.
They have collected money and then de1ed the
merchants for whom they collected it to get it. and
have vicLimized everybody having dealings with
them. They seem to have had a friend in the
sheriff $ office by whom attachments issued
against them were pigeon-holcd.
1t is feared that the atmosphere of London will
soon damage the surface of Cleopatra IS Needle.
The Luxor obslisk, erected in the Place de la Con-
corde in Paris in 1886, is some 400 years old
having stood with another still larger one before
the great temple of rhebes The stone is syenitC
granite of brownish red color. Thirty-siX years
exposure to the atmosphere of Paris has affected
| the stone more than the same number of centuries
exposure to the purer air Of Egypt.
Rachel II. Whip has gone to the Ohio STATE
mia t,r C1,n oil NM
wealthy wlower in Medina in the expectation tina
he would soon die and leave her his property; bu
he continued in robust health, and threatened tC
make a will giving her no more than the law com
pelled HIM to. one night he awoke to find a noos,
around his eek, and his wife pulling at the rope
which ran through staple in the wall of the room
She intended to hang him and make people bcli.v
he had committed suicide.
This is one of the latest stories about the Pope
| Not long after his return to Rome in 1850 n heauti
lul young English lady was OUT sketchlng with
maid near the Polta PA. The pope came out il
his carriage, descended, and began to take hi
usual walk. The maid having gone to ask his
blessing returned to say that his holiness woulc
gladly give his hand 10 bc kissed by her youn!
English mistress. JUDGED" said that Ia ~, with
toss finer heretical head 81 think my hand Uctte
worth kissing tina HIS The pope, who had ap
preached unseen, laughed gently, and said to he
great confusion, " That Is perfectly true; but yo
will allow an old man TO bless You, nevertheless.
Mr.. Gladstone appears to be considered a
adept in the woodlands art. He was recently il
giled to witness the operation ola patent steal
trce-eller. \ tree with diamotcrs of three feet on
inch and two feet three inches, was brought dow
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