Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-24
News and Gossip.

salary Of sl. The town is now declining.
Ireland gained 7,ls5 in her population in 1877
notwithstanding the emigration was SOS.
Bishop veroIles, the Oldest French missionary in
CHINA, has just died, alter forty years Of Eastern
service.
\ singular disease mas broken ont among
Queehee's famous woolly cats. aud several them
have died.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has signed bic
forty. second death-warrant. He warrants every
one Of them TO kill.
There are already three Organized factions OF
the national party in New York city, and good
for a fourth.
10 New Hampshire the " back farms " are pass
ing into the hands Of men from the cities, who
propose to engage in agriculture.
1t rained smtll but very active loads at La
Crosse, Wis, last week, which were seen in their
descent by reliable Witnesses.
While waving his sweetheart adieu after leaving
the Meirose n. Y. depot John eeIleman, fell
between the cars and was killed.
The authorities of Sing Sing prison have tele-
graphed that three convlcts missing but expect
that they are secreted on the premises
IlluCS hdo just cut On tue lpuS Dtdlu
h. cultivated last winter, ann resumed his SIMPLE
moustac &c. His hair and beard are snow white.
Farmer Mars, OF Unontown, Ind., was decapi e.
tated by his mule, which threw him and, looping
It's trace cham ABOUT MS neck, junpeI the fence
aud completely severed his head.
1t is announced hat yellow fever prevails at the
naval hospital, Brooklyn. aud that lhIee deaths
have already occurred. The authorities are taking
measures to prevent the spread Of the disease.
The trial Of the oaugemen arrested the 18th of
July came up the 18th, and was adj burned without
any evidence being Ia en- 10 The 3ist. The applI.
cation Tor adjournment was male on behalf Of III.
prosecution.
Oliver p. Baldwin, one of the editors of tn,
Baltimore sun, died at Waver,y Md, the 10Th
aged 81. Baldwin for ~ years was a pIouinen
writer and Journalist. He had a wide reputation
as a humollst writer.
The ST. Louis police caught counterleter in the
midst of his work. A galvanic battery, mulds anu
other apparatus for making spurious ten cen,
pieces were around him. seven thousand OF the
coins were in heap at his side.
The arrangement Tor Illuminating the streets OF
Cincinnati with moonlight is pronounced failure
and since the price OF beer has been reduced t
three cents glass the tax payers feel better able
bear the expense of the old system.
They must be pretty hard up for events to cele.
brate down IN Ri ode island. a lot of ex.sol lers
observed the anniversary of Bull Run yesterda,
by marching in a body TO Providence church and
| listening to q " discourse appropriate to the &C.
casion."
| 1t is well to look at both sides of fan. On a
| It heated sunday in Philadelphia the other day
The minister Was f4nning him self vigorously. IL
did not see, but the congregation did, that the n
verse of his fan bore the inscription, " Buy Bog.
giles BitteIs."
| A fire occurred at Montreal, the 10th, in tn,
house Of Joseph Duhamel, occasloned by lighted la
pers surrounding the corpse OF Duhamels daughl.
ter, settling fire TO the curtains on the bed wher,
| the deceased was laid out. The corpse was saveu
from the flames with great difficulty.
| N IS Beckwth, who astonished Lon lon some
time since by swimming ten miles in the Thames
before she was Geen years Of age, will shortly II,
10 swim twice The distance. Should she succeed,
| SHE may try the passage from Dover to Calais,
Mark Twain is at Heidelberg; Bret uarte, jour
neylng slowly toward his consulate; Henry NJ
stanley, resting ami dining IN Paris; Rec Jrde;
iiackett OF New York, enj lying the exhibition; ana
Judge Noah DAVIS, hand n.hand witt Judge Brady
hunting for avdlanclcs among tue owitzer peaks
If Mrs. Fry of ave e, lives until the 10th of mex
september, she will be los years OF age. She na,
used tobacco ever since she was young woman
Lately her physician would not allow her 10 smoke
as olt'n as size deslre. Her appetite is voracious
and it is necessary to restrict her in the amount
OF food she consumes.
| A cable speci II says that Gen. Grant was recev
ed with great enthusiasm by crowds of people
when he landed at Gottenburgh, Swede n, and on
reaching Chrstana, the capital of Norway, on the
18th, over 10 0J0 people greeted nm, King Oscar
will come to Christiana to rece We Gen. Grant ami
give him state dinner.
a gang OF armed rouyhs and tramps boarde a
crowded excursion train on the New uIve1 and
Northampton road at Cle5hire, Conn, saturday
night, as a party was returning from the sound.
Women were insnlted and cloth en- stolen. The
train was stopped several times. The passeng gers
and conductors were helpless. a few tramps were
thrown fom the tram and the rest left at PhnviIle
The tram was four hours late at Westnsd.
Hydrophobia is on the increase in England and
Wales, as is shown by parliamentary return re-
Gently submitted. In the IL years ending with ls1t
the total number of deaths was 3S7, but while the
early average OF the first SIX years was about %
that of the last five was As, swelling to Al IN 1877
and So in 1876 Part of this increase, no Sever
may he due to greater accuracy in obtaining status
tics, an assumption which is strengthened by the
fact that almos: all the deaths are reported from
certain districts. -
The old watch dog tlchy" of the Fidelity
Safe Depository of Chicago ha- just died of old az,
IN that ctly. On the night of the great fire, Oct.
1871, old Fidelity Was at his post in the Edeht!
state DEPOSITORY, and when the hurricane Of tn,
dre swept over the city he took refuge in an unoc
cupied vault in the basement and remained their
until the II h of October, when the de1ri, wa.
cleared away and the faithful old fellow was rescu
ed He has ever since been an object of interest a
the ouly living thing that passed through the grel
fre.
Kissing is not taught IN the pujia schools eN
aCtly but It seems TO have been a popular pastim
in the Wisconsi in Asy lum Tor the Deaf and DumO
rhe superinten'ents kissed the teachers frequent
ly and miscellaneously, and the teachers returne
the compliment with interest at rurnous rates
But in time the superintendent began kissing tn
pupils-he pretty ones-and then thce was a row
LOT tue tedcnefs CoulunL stanu lnat, any nov
Complaint was made, an investigation was helc
and Kissing though still popuar, is not lrequer
within the asylum's wall As it was.
The New YORK llerall Is Qleb &c special says tn
last few days have witnessed the growth of
strong feeling in favor OF annexation 10 the Unite
States. This is due to the conduct OF the Domino
authorities In tolerating open prosecution of II,
, MajestS's Pl otestant subjects In the provinces
Many events of the past few days dare not be r
corded by the Quebec press the city beng virtual
In the power OF AL armed force of li6bonmen, wi
, would not hesitate TO burn the Office of any new
paper expressing its opinion of the recent outrag
as it threatened TO burn the parliment house fe
nights ago for the least reference 10 the npendIr
difficulties.
=, At Cincinnati Tuesdiy,a well dressed genll
, man called for two drafts on New York for ten al
twelve dollars each, at the bank OF E. and
tiudebach & Co. Tickets we're mlde out by Il
clerk, aud as he was very busy he sent the par
: around to the exchange Clerks desk with t
, tickets, instead of taking them himself, as is Gu
4 tomary. The stranger predxed ths figure nil
before The ten, and the dsure seven before 1
. twelve, and then presented them to the exchan
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