Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-20


ed except from the lolier peaks of the Adiron-
dacks.
1t will take three years to finish the revision OIL
the Bible which is now being made by the Amefl-
can and British Committee.
One of the most prominent dry goods houses IN
New York is paying out gold and silver ind'ner-
emily in change at their retail store.
The Wisconsin Legislature has been talking OF
following Iowa's example in restoring the death
penalty, but finally concludes not to.
wealthy Newburyport man, fearful that his
relatives may try to put him into a lunatic asylum
has provided himself with several physicians GER
tiGcates that he is sane.
\ Dutch company recently obtained from the
Khedye of Egypt the right Of draining Lake Mare
otis by which means some 10 600 acres may again
be brought under cultivation.
The Oldest cx.Unltcd States Senator alive is
Peleg Sprague, of Boston, who was Senator from
Maine for the six years from ls29 to 1885. lie is
eighty years old and is blind.
Some As years ago, small steamer was run on
the Connecticut River, between White River juno
ton and Hartford, Conn. Now, person cannot
get along with skin in low water without picking
his way.
Andrew Butts would not permit a party of
tramps to warm themselves at his campfire, and
d owe them away. They returned when he was
asleep, threw him into the flames, and burned him
| to death
Professor Edison, the telegraph inventor, has
invented airphone, OF speaking toghorn, which
can be distinctly understood at distance Of four
miles. lie has been offered $500 GOO for it by
British company.
The Communists of St. Louis are very active of
late. On Sunday they celebrated the anniversary
of the Paris Commune. We are not surprised TO
hear that they are thorough believers in the Butler
system of American finance.
A Canadian priest lately sued a young man
whom he had married, for his wedding fee, which
he stated at fifteen dollars. The jury found for the
defendant, on the ground that the youth had re-
ceived no apprecable value.
Kate Delaney, who squandered one or two for
tunes in Boston and who attempted suicide in
miserable lodgings at Providence, X. l., was mar
red Saturday, to Albert Klnner, of Hartford, a
former lover, said to be wealthy.
The travelling public will be oyfu at the announce.
ment that the photograph can be applied to the
whistles of locomotives and roar out the names OF
the stations so loudly as to be heard by every pas
senger, and by all the country round.
The body of LaPage has been buried in the pot
, ters field, at Blossom HUI Cemetery, Concord.
What final disposition will be made of it seems not
to be determined yet. People having remains of
friends or relatives in the tomb object to its being
kept there.
5 The title, Queen of Tramps, is given TO the
, woman who walked from Bangor to Kansas City
and back. She was three years at it. and her routt
was far from direct, being varied by her wander
ing nclnalions. She worked a little on the way
out gehera''y u'eu ny oeSs'oS anu S'e"''os'
tbs related by the London Times that Il woman
who recently died at Ashcot at the age of lOt year
had for the last 40 OF them been IN the haDlt Of
drinking GIN u excess often spending Niooo
year for 1t. II IS SraVey suggested mat but lo
this habit she wouIl not nave thus been cut oil ii
her prime
Washington special says Con gresham Black