Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-01-09

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The King of Italy is seriously i'll, fever and pleu'
risy of the right lung being his complaint.
A Texes dog left in Missouri found hi way back
to his ma ster's house a distance of 800 miles.
The Earl ofRoseberry is to marry Miss Hannah
Rothschd She has an income of million dollars
a year.
Mrs. Isaac Mills, in attempting to save dog
near Lancaster o., recently, was killed by To-
connective.
City Treasurer L. L. Daren Of Quebec is de-
faulter in $4,000 by collision with Piton Co.,
building contractors.
Within the three years since the Philadelphia
Times was started it has had seventeen libel suits
and has won them ALL
Thirteen is an unucky number of persons to Sit
down to dinner,-if there is only enough to go
around comfortably for twelve.
A Russian Official dispatch dated Bogot, states
that Turkish prisoners from Plevoa are dying oil
cold, and that it is impossible to afford them any
aid.
Ex.Queen Isabella of spain protests against the
Punishment of Don Carlos from France, and pro-
nounces as ia se the reported conspiracy against
her SON.
vehnor didn't prognostcate any cold snaps to
occur in January. If this sort of thing continues
poor vennor will lose his reputation as weather
prophet.
John Dixon says he proposes to tow CleOpatra's
Needle to England from Fcrrol, Spain, about the
10th inst. The litigation as to salvage has been
arranged.
The Boston Health Board pronouuces dlphtheria
disease dangerous TO the public health, and
orders physicians to report cases as they do those
of smallpox.
According to the statistical bureau, the excess of
exports over imports during the eleven months
ending November 80 was upwards of hundred
and twenty four million dollars.
Four Black Hills gold mines have been sold to
California capitalists for the handsome sum OF
100000 This is the heavies mining transaction
that uas occurred in the Black Hills.
st. Louis woman cursed with the opium habit
went to the insane asylum, and after treatment for
a shoit time has come forth entirely cured. 1t was
hard discipline, she says but she would cndurc len
times as mnch for the liberty she now enjoys.
All but 500 of the population of 1000 in Corllant
y Y, have signed the Murphy pledge, and th'
liquor business is ruined "but this thing is bount
TO blow over" said deeler as he sat in his desert
Ell bar room, and folks will be tnirstIer thar
before"
Gen. Robert Toombs says he is going TO Paris
at will be the third exposition that have ATTENDED
in that city. l tended the exposition of lSjj as
Senator: attended the exposition of 1861 a. re-
fugee, but am going to this one as gentleman
by God, sir'
Ex Gov. DmgIey, of Maine, has gathered status
tics to show that there is not proportiohately one
tenth of the liquor sold and used in that state tina
there was forty years ago, and that drunkenness
pauperism and crimes of violence having thcl
origin in the use of liquor have largely decreased
rough old clergyman once took for his tex
that passage of the Psalms, 81 said Ia my hast
all men are liars" Looking up apparently as if HI
saw the Psalmist standing before him, he said
" You said it in your haste, David If you ha
been here, you might have said it after deliber
ton,
Laplanders have horror of wolves, which max
sad havoc among their treasures-reindecr,A Lap
first question in England was, " Are there wol1C
here J." and when told there was not he claspe
his hands and said, " If it only had snow, moul
tans aud rein moss, what a happy country
would bel"
Mukhtar Pasha has left Erzeroum, One accom-
states that he has been recalled to Constantnoplt
another that he has taken command Of a small fOlt
in the field. The Russians have suspended the col
centraton of troops against ErzerOum on accOur
of the snow, They are max ing roads by tLnne lii
through the snow,
The population of Japan is very dense, but the
is no idlng, no starving and no begging. l hav
not seen beggar since landed. | wish our go
eminent would send over some missionaries
teach our people how to be industrious, tempera
and frugal, and contented and less qlarrelsomc
Recent Japan Letter.
A lawyer and his wife in Lafayette Ky. &
drunk on New Years Day. They smashed Il
windows of their dining room and he glass of Il
pictures, tore down the curtains, killed two bird
broke dogs leg, and whipped servant gin
Their case is to be considered by the church
which they are members.
Dahman, Now York horse man, has shippt
about 500 picked American horses to England
the last nine months at good profit. Al Grs
there was great prejudice against them in Il
English market, but their merits spoke for thei
selves, and they are especially liked because the
are so well broken and can be driven by women.
I.ynthing parties generally do their work tho
oughly, but Reuben Proctor, who was hung by
mob near Indianola, a., some time since, is said
have been cut down by his friends before life W
extinct, restored to consciousness and conccac
while conf supposed to contain his remain
but really filled with dirt, was buried. He has lt
for more congcnial climes.
An evident reaction on the silver question h
taken place among congressman since the holldd
recess, and the advocates of an extreme measu
believe 1t will be impossible to pass the Bland h
over the Presidents veto. The conviction is sa
to be so strong that compromise measure h
: been considered and partially agreed upon by !
: representatives. of the opposing elements.
In Grcensburg Ind, n susceptible young ms
fell in love with tickle widow, obtained hit
promise to marry him, and invested all his mont
in house tor her 10 live in after they were we
ded. rhcy wer e never welded, however, for Il
widow ilted him; and lie has sued her for Grca'
of promise, claiming that his heart has been dal
AGED IS 900 by sorrow and his pocket 5000 by t
real estate investment.
Baron Bcttno Rlsasolj, II Tuscan, having take
to heart inc sal condition of those ms countr
men whom property and lack of employment col
pei to cmigrate, has appurtioncd his eXtensl'
estates Of Maremma into snail lots, which are d
posed of at merely nominal prices to those hayil
, little money, and giyea gratis to peasants wi
are inclined to labor but pcnnlless, Fertile win
Yards, fruit plantations, and olive groves are fair
distributed among tho lands which the Baron HI
allotted to the poor.
f The term MORRISON " is applied in France
infants under three years of age who are, o. ous
TO be, nourished at the breast There are thr
, kinds of nourissons those fed at the mother
breast those mtrustel to nurses, and finally, t
infants which fall to the care of the poor,law au
critics. The fate of these different classes vari
from 10 to 90 per cent N the first class there l.
mortality OF 10 to 10 per cent, In the second ella
the death rate is about 30 per cent. the mean "a
; for the third class is So per cent but sOmetim
reaches the horrible rate OF 81 to 80 per cent.
Bourbonsm is getting some hard raps even
Mississippi. They have Just had lively muI
cpal contest at Grecnvllle, the shire town
Washington county, the result Of which is me
significant and encouraging. On the one hand W
l the regular " rock-ribbed democracy; on
} other, party rallied under the leadership of
equal.rights dcmocralic.conscrvativ club, "whi
< justified its name by joining liberal men of DO
parties and races in support Of n broad plattort
like that of Gov. Nichols in Louisiana. The neg
vote was sedulously cultivated, and after a ha
fight, bourbonism was defeated by good majori
A singular meteorological phenomenon was
served through the Otter Greek valley, Tuesd
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