Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10
News and Gossip.

There we're seven cases OF sunstroke in New
York, the 4th, and one drowning case at Rocka-
way.
A Thibodeaux (La.) little girl, whose sight was
good enough 10 the morning, was totally blind in a
few hours, without any apparent cause.
The Fall River print works have suspended,
The mill contained 1900 spIndes and employed
Us hands. Liabilities $4,000; nominal assets
100000,
The arsenic Sacramento (Cal) young woman
use to improve her features, has ruined her health
and destroyed her mind, after years indulgence,
and at 20 she is a raving m iniac.
At Independence. Iowa, Clarence Shaw shot and
instantly killed Miss Matte Sherwood, daughter OF
prominent citizen. lie then shot and killed him.
self Jealousy was the supposed cause.
John Berrian aged 7s, one of the superintendent
ofthe Croton aqueduct, New York, was killed,
Monday by driving his horse and buggy OF tn,
aqueduct, the top of which is the roadway.
visitor remarked, in speaking of fine heads
of hair: Ny wife's hair is SO long ii falls in way
trsses TO her waist. That's nothing said Snodgras'
when my maiden sister lets hers down, it falls 10
the floor.
The superintendent of Long Island railroad
gives a very lucid explanation OF a collision hi
line last week "Oh, n switch engine happened to
get in the way ofan incoming train that's all there
is to It. "
dispatch from New Orleans states that proof
will be f Incoming that $1,000 was DEPOSITED her,
FIR the payment to E. l.. Weber upon his tes tifyne
before the Potter committee in cOrroboration u
Anderson.
Kearney, the political rocket on the Pacific coas
was born in Oakmount county Co k Ireland, il
l147, spent his y nth al sea and shot above the
Califo, mia horiz n in 1865. first officer of thu
clipper ship shooting Star,
Berlin dspa'ch saws all persons arrested in
connection with NObelng's attempt upon the empt
rors life on suspicion Of beng accomplices, ar
liberated, Modelling youngest brother was die.
charged from custody last week.
New York policeman arrested young mar
who had bt en- swimming in the East river for max.
ing an indecent exhibition of himself, and the'
mai ched him naked through the streets to the sta.
ton house, several blocks distant.
Miss Bell Mitchell, of Bono, Lawrence count ,
Ind. the Goddess of Liberty that headed the p O.
cession to greet Senator Motion at Orleans, ha
just died of consumption Induced by the cold sh,
then caught from being thlnly clad.
On the All, a WON named Ryan, aged so. ts.
capped from the county poor house at Dewttvllh
Ny. She sought refuge at a farm house and Will
trying the doors and win lows she was shot througl
the head by The farmer who took her for burgla,.
She cannot live.
Delegate Fem of Idaho has received advice
stating that from 1000 to 1870 Indians in that pc
ton of Oregon bordering on Idaho stand COMMITTEE
to war. The Indians are dying beef Tor futu'
use. Their fortresses are inaccessible as those
the Modocs formerly were.
Geo. Fesser, the Ascending county treasure,
of Stark county, ohic, was arrested at Hamilton
and b ought to London, Ont. on a charge of bring
ing stolen goods into the country. lie is charge,
with embezzing over $4,000, half of which wa,
brought to that city and deposited in local banks.
The westward star of empire moves on, tn,
Northern Pacific road hiving sold l6j ,54 acres il
the past four months, against 81 l75 disposed of il
the same time LAST year, the Kansas Pacific l27,279
now to 81 s24 then, and u railroad companies we,
of OHIO 800 ,sl acies, at from $3.50 to sl2 GS per
acre.
George FesIler, the abscOndng treasurer Of
sta, k county, o., has arrived at Canton from Cana
ia and is now in Ill. He brou Sht alb nut % 90
with HIM, the other $40, is still missing. H. pre-
feired to stand trial in Canton rather than go to
Canadian prison Tor carrying stolen goons into
the country.
A meeting of 1000 magistrates of Montreal decided
to place in the hands of the mayor all power am
authority to preserve the peace in the city on tn,
18th INST. series of resolutions offered by tn,
mayor was adopted, one Of which directed the
mayor to forbid assemblages on the streets or pub
lie places on July y.
An attempt was male at sweetsburg, +. @, Tues.
dav evening, I'd, to assassinate Edward II. Gof
president of the Boston, Montreal and Portland
railroad. He was in his library talking with his
brother, when two shots Were fired through tn,
WIN low by some unknown person, who escaped
Guff was not injured
In the Arkansas democratic state convention
resolution declaring President Hayes title settled
by the 4ih Congress and that it was not the p obey
Of the house or The Potter committee to question
the tecis was defare ;and resolut ion eulogiz-
ing the action of the house showing up fraud
and corruption, was adopted.
John Ross of Casnovia, Mich. had an ailiug,
wife. 1t was certain that she coull not recove
and he thought he might as well look around for
her successor. lie chose the daughter of a neigh.
bor and so Informed his wife, who told him tta'
she would not stay long in the way. That night
she drowned herself A mob tarred and feathered
Mr.. Ross.
The eclipse Of the sun on the 29'h inst. will b.
total from Irkontsk, Sihrra through the wester,
part Of the British posses. ms, Denver Colorado
and northern AMI eastern Texas, entering the gull
Of Mexico to disappear a little southeast of sal
Domingo. The exhibition will be visible as a par
tial eclipse over al the United states, Mexico an
British Mexico that afternoon.
An express messengers bag containing 81 900
which had been delivered at the city Office. il
gainesville, u, Monday to the messenger, VIII
with the agent oflhe American express company
and driver rode on wagon TO the Pane<vill.
mile, missing when they arrived there, and
no clew to money or thief can be found
The most serious accident that occurred on the
Fourth so far rcportc |, was at q German Luther.
An picnic at Ross Grove, on the Western Pennsyl
vInia Railroad, where a large tree fell on party
who hal nel 10 1t for SHELTER during q thunder.
shower instantly killing ten and seriously injurinp
hlteen four or five OF whom it isr'ared will die.
rhe dead and injured were all from sharpsburg.
1t is said That Secretary Sherm IN intends to use
his silver as breikwtter in ease of any run fol-
lowing specie resumption. He has on hand six or
seven millions In silver and should specie payment
BE- postponed until January some twenty millions
or more could be accumulated under the silve,
bill 1t is thought there win be very little demand
for coin upon the if 1t is known silver will
have to be taken first and be exhausted before gold
| can be reached
Dr. James Cook Aver, the celebrated patent
medicine millionaire, died at W nchendon, Mass.
IN the 81. He madea fortune estimated all the
way from three 10 twenty millions, and then was
foolish enough TO try turning statesman. He
succeeded IN capturing the republican nomination
for congress in the Lowell district four years ago
but was Overwhelmingly defeated. Not long alter
his mind began to give way, and he died at last in
private lum.
a New London Comm excursion had very sad
ending The Attn. An exceedingly violent storm OF
thunder and lightning burst over the ST. Mary's
temperance soclety's picnic and RACED for nearly
two hours While at its hight what seemed a ball
IF drc burst with lou report, shiverlng large
tree under which Bridget Maxwell, an elderly
Irish woman. stood, and killed her instantly. Her
limbs were shrlvelled to a crisp, her hair
and clothing burned off and her face horribly