Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-11-27
News and GOSSin.

press his claims to the seat IN the Senate, now oc-
cupied by Gen. Butler.
The passenger rates from Cincinnati to New
York have been increased to $40, and the old rates
will soon be restored on all lines.
A New Orleans dispatch states that government
has commenced the prosecution of democrats of
Louisiana for frauds al the recent election.
The republican plurility in Illinois is about 50 600
and the national. voteonly little oveT50oOO against
5000 for the third candidate four years ago.
The 2lst of November-the day the British troops
crossed the Afghanistan frontier lines-may prove
a notable day in the history of Great Britain.
Bisbee, republican, gets his certificate as member
of congress from florada, but he hai TO run the
gauntlet of democratic committee OF elections.
Thomas II. Powers of the drug manufacturing
house of Powers Wightmln, PHI iladelphia, died
the 2Oth, leaving property estimated to be worth
100000.
Go. App and John Haskell shoe makers at
Memphis, had difficulty about pair of boots
which Haskell was making for App. App shot
| Haskell dead.
Ayoung woman named Mary Francis Robbins
of Bucksport, Me-, committed suicide the other
night by taking announce of oil of cedar,on account
| Oh disappointment III lOVc
Kearney, in his farewell address at Boston, said:
" The greenbackers, God help them, are non est"
which is probably the squarest piece Of truth he
| uttered in Massachusetts,
| Christopher Catllanvilie, Brooklyn, was arrest.
ed for brutally clubbing two school boys the 10Th,
for throwing stones at his wife; one of the boys,
Thomas Madden, aged b. is dying at the hospital.
| at BrookGeld, Wis, a lad entered blacksmith
shop, threw an overcoat, in the pocket of which
was loaded pistol, down upon an anvil. The
weapon exploded, killing Charles Somers instantly
The New York sun says: William V. Taylor
has been lei. 800 OCJ on condition that he marres
before he becomes of age lie is now twenty, and
is understood TO have made no choice. His post
office address is Whitehall, y. Y"
The last of the Fenian prisoners, Michael Ahearne
was released from Millbank prison, London, on
Nov.7th, on the representation of Mr.. Butt, Mr..
O'Cunor Power, and Mr.. O'shaughnessey. lie
had been eleven years in confinement.
Ingenious river thieves at Brooklyn, the other
night, stole over ton of sugar by rowing under
| the dock and with an augur boring holes through
the plank into . hogsheads standing overhead.
Three men were arrested with sugar in their pos
| session.
| A man has just won verdict oftLhrec hundred
dollars in court in Washington, from the Pullman
pala,e car company, under peculiar circumstances.
lie lought sleepug-car ticket, but npon going TO
the train could not 6nl any car, sat up al night
I and caught cold.
Fo,ty fully armed Moonshiners surrounded a
houe in Abbevnl, S. C., on Thursday, demanding
that revenue officers there should leave the coun-
L., rad hy hn in q
house and the Moonshners departed. Subsequent
ly, tie officers safely made their way 10 the Able
vile count house.
Alta Grange, KY, Wednesday n light, forty arm
ed men aroused the jaior from bed, took the jail
key, went to the jail, secured the negro George
Williams and took him two miles out and hung
him. The negro confessed that he had ravished an
eighLyear.old girl, Tuesday
A terrible explosion occurred at the Sullivan Goa
mine, Ind, the 2lst, by the explosion of gas There
were also eight kegs of powder in the mine. or 81
men in the mi ne at the time 10 were killed outright
eight or ten wounded, an many others suffering SC
by surocation that their lives hang by threads.
Postmaster u eneral Key has ordered the Spring
Garden post office, in Alabama, discontinued, OF
account of rotous demonstrations and threat!
made by some of the Inhabitants against spccia
agent of the department who had discovered gross
frauds in the stamp sales of the postmaster, AM
procured his arrest.
The superintendent of the assay Office at Denver
COLI says a Washington dispatch to the New Yorl
sun, has purchased in the past ten days $4,000 o
gold and silver bullion at par in greenbacks
the treasury department ut Washington the dis
tncton between gold and greenbacks is overlook
ed in small transactions.
Charles W. Angel, delaultng secretary of The
Pullman palace car company, has been arrested a
2 Lisbon, Portugal and $50 900 of the money takel
e by him was found on his person. 1t is believe
that there will b, little dihi ;uy in securing hi
extradition though there is no extradItion treat
between the two countries.
S The failure OF the Eagle moving machine con
pany of Albany, of which VIM. Arson Wood
=, president, is announced. The statement of tn
company shows an unsecured indebtedness
about $2l4,0OO, 10 pay which the compa ny has il
mill property, machinery, machines and patent
ESTIMATED by the management to be worth upwait
u OF S5lO,oOO.
There seems to be no doubt about snakes drin
ing milk. a few days ago at kingswood. the hon
- farm Of Mr.. Calcratt, near Corie Castle, Engian
{, the dairyman noticed that something seemed
enter the dairy through hole in the wall and tai
. the mix. Thinking 1t was a mouse or rat he S
a common gin at the hole, aud caught snail
= every day until he had caught seventeen.
The parents oil au year old Easthampton, Mas
boy let him at home the 10Th, to visit the deaf
" bed OF relative and their return in the evenil
d could not find the boy. Men with torchlights &c
n lowed the country roads for four miles out and Il
church bells were Iung and 800 men with tore
IlIgus and lanterns filed The streets. The boy WI
found looking out of the front chamber wi
u dow. He wanted TO see torchlights
Ephraim Duftesne of Three Rivers, prom ne
llawyermysteriously disappeared from the sleam
D. Montreal about a week ago. lis coat and We
III were found in his stateroom. He had $500 on h
Is person, and on his way to pay the premium c
e his life insurance for slu500. His family claim
was thrown overheard for his money, and they ha
called ON the ns urance Offices for the amount
Of his policies. The latter refuse to pay.
special from Tallahassee, Fla, says that Il
ut supreme court decide that the returns of thr,
g precincts rejected by the Alachua county canvas
ID ing board are good and valid, and has issued
peremptory writ TO the board TO canvass theI
IN These precincts gave Bisbee majority of 49, al
le by their rejection the canvassing board electC
H. Hull, democrat. Bsbee'3 majority now stant
Dr. about 200 in the district.
u Rowland Levine, n. Y. druggist clerk, took
u dose of audinum, told his friends of 1t, and VIII,
they sent for doctor cody jokcd with him b
a refused 10 allow him to use an emetic stoma,
II pump to stop the effect Of the poison. Argumen
Of his duty to his widowed mother had effect
h. Levine, who said that his life was his own and
proposed 10 take it as ii was no pleasure for him
!, live, though no one knows why. Finally the posC
n mastered aim, but then it was too late for antidot
n though the doctor kept the man alive come lime
artificial means.
n, Mrs. William IIallisy, of New York, is dead fro
r a stab wound in the breast, inflicted Friday |
of her stcp-sOn John Hasy, Il years old. 1t appea
~ that the day she was injured, she slapped Il
~ boys face because he refused to go an errai
fjr her, ard he snatchcd a table knife with sha
point and threw 1t at her with such precision al
force as TO bury the point three inches in h
breast. The neighbors found the boy kneeling /
y, side her Veeping and accusing himself of ha vii