Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-09-04
News and Gossip.

The public schools in the District OF Columbia
are SO crowded that 800 cannot be accommodate
ed.
"Rarus" came Of poor but honest parents. His
progenitor did duty the beast of Fulton market
(New York; lsndealer.
It is reported that James Gordon Bennett brought
from France steeple chaser which has made
extraordinary time and cost $4,000
The Fountain House at Waukesha, Wisconsin,
was burned on Saturday, involving a property loss
Of $l3OU0O. All the guests escaped with most of
their baggage
The Memphi, Appeal notes the fact that although
Cinnamon reside and do business as laundrymen
in he inherited districts, not a single one of them
has yet taken the yellew fever.
NJ. valasse, a mechanician at the arsenal OF
Farbes, France,has invented musket which can be
fired five hundred times before needing to be
cleaned. After each hundred shots it is necessary
TO cease firing until the gun becomes cool.
Israel Pu'nan's wolGien adventure at last has a
parallel. Emarne Bracket of Texas county, Mo-.
young fellow of u, crawled nearly % feet under
ground, in some places through a very narrow pas.
sage, and killed four wolves in their den with q
knife and spear.
Private Tohm, recently convicted of numbering
fellow soldier at West Point, \. Y, has been d s.
honorably discharged from the army by the all
jutant-general. 1t now seems doubtful if the
president will interfere to prevent tue execution of
the sentence OF death.
Victor Saunders was married in Rock bingham Va,
four years ago, and on the next day killed man.
He was sent to prison on a conviction of man
| slaughter. His wife got a divorce and married
| another man, but she was a widow when Saunders
was discharged, recently and on meeting they re-
| married.
\ boy about seven years old was found the 9TH
er day Ave miles below Chester, near the Illinois
shore of the Missippt river, and 60 miles below ST.
Louis, floating on the trunk of a huge cottonwood
tree, and from the evidence atIanable 1t appears
that the little fellow had been in this posi- ion five
or six days without food.
| james Bennett, a professional gambler of St.
Paul, Ind, was shot AMI instantly killed by j. d.
| Arnold. Arnold charged Bennett with Influencing
| his son against him and said he was the cause of
| his son leaving hom1. Bennett aivancet to reply
when Arnold caught his arm, placed his pistol to
his breast and fired, the ball entering little above
| the heart.
| John Eckert of Orange, y. j., was so workei up
by defeat in legal dispute by woman the other
| lay that he took an Did gun that he used in the
| iermiu revolution Of 1916 placed the muzIle In
his mouth and discharged 1t by pres sing the trigger
with his foot. There was no bullet IN the gun, but
a ward OF paper in it passed through the roof OF
| his mouth into his brain
Only four steamers sailel for Europe Saturday
| rhe shipments of leading staples were muoh
smaller than usual of late, the gr ln cars1es being
only 100 900 bushels, while for the first time In
long period there were no live CATTLE but thsre
| we're large consignmeuts of Tobacco to Germany,
and the first of the crop of apples were ship
ped to En9land.
A few DAYS since the descendants OF Daniel
| iriswold, who settled at North Springfield from
Connecticut in 1900, hell picnic in the grove, just
outside OF the village, owned by the only surviving
! 1hd Of Mr.. Gnswoll, Mrs. Louisa Field, widow
| If the late Hon. Abner Field. These defendants
md the members Of the family by marriage hav e
long been accustomed thus yearly to gather near
he old homestead and have social visit Some
hirty, five were present on this OCCASION An adj
rsss commemorative of the settlement Of the place
W the ancestors was delivered by Fred G. Field
and vote was taken to publish 1t.