Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-24
News and Gossip.

news anu VVosips
Gambettl's health causes his friends anxiety.
General Grant LETT Florence for Venice Monday.
Bayard Taylor landed at Plymouth, England,
Monday.
Leo XIII. is reported to be in poor health and in
need of a change of air.
It's now the mode in England to be buried in an
open wicker.work coffin illed with flowers.
An old negro woman Of Alabama died from a
bite by a grandchild whom she was chastising.
Jere Black sues ex Secretary Belknap to recoy-
err s5 COO for services in the impeachment trial.
Longley, a Texan desperate, who has murdered
thrty.two men, is now waiting to be ha7 ged in Lee
County, Texas.
A wind storm did serious damage at Storm Lake,
Ia. Sunday. several persons IN that vicinity are
reported killed.
About sixty communists armed and partly uni
formed, met and held drill on a prairie west OF
Chicago, Sunday.
A lot of ignorant farmers in Wisconsin, on Satur-
day, refused TO take gold in payment for grain
they wanted greenbacks.
1t is reported in San Francisco that Messrs.
Flood and C'Brien are 10 build wonen's hotel in,
that city at a cost of 100000
Popular interest in the Paris fair seems lust now
to be revolving around the graod central question
Plymouth White The swindler is said TO have
poisoned Alvin Mayall one ofhis Denver (CoD vic.
tins, after robbiug him of all his property.
A tornado in the REGION of Sioux City, Iowa
Sunday, did great damage. Half dozen people
are reported killed and fifty injured
The Canadian government has decided to exact
| a duty of l7H per cent ad valorem upon all i'm
portations oftbe United States silver coin.
show is not circus unless clown be intro
duced. So, at least, the Chief Justice of Massa
chusetts has just decided, and every small boy
will agree with him.
r. NJ. Clement, 50 years of age, and Thomas Law
lor, aged 20, were drowned at GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Friday night The latter lost his life by attempting
to save the old man.
The confession came n little late for the lecture
season, but both Beecher and Tilton are making
lots of money out of it in tremendous audiences
the few remaining nights.
| There was demonstration against Woods tariff
| bill at Chester Pa, Saturday. There was
street parade of about 1000 men, women and chill
dren, and speeches by Senator Blaine and others
In the province of Nassau, Prussia, the common
nette has been treated like hemp, and is found tc
yield fibre quite aslurable aud as fine as silk
| Factories have consequently been started for it
| manufacture.
| The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta railroad
| better known as the Atlantic Coast Line, went int
the hands of receiver on the 18th inst. This is
| trunk line and has been regarded the soundes
| in the entire South.
| William &. Esterbrook, a Boston insane man
tried to blow up his house the other night by tax.
ing off tho gas fixtures and firing up the furnace
to a white heat but his wife prevented a disaster
| by her presence of mind.
Charles Johnson alias Captain Green, an old of
fender, is under arrest in Chicago. In his younge
days he was burglar, but his operations for a few
years past have been confined to iustructing young
thieves and burglars, and the manufacture o.
burglars tools.
John F. Nichols, the Fail River business man
who was recently accused by tho Boston Heral
of trying to ruin his wife, denies the story, AM
proposes to sue that paper for 100000 damages
Meanwhile the Herald publishes other charges of
similar character.
Mrs. Dickens has become reconciled with he
sister, Miss Hogarth, who after tho separation o
the novelist from his wife, became his housekeepe
and of whom he said that she was the best an
truest friend man ever had" Mrs. Dickens an
Miss Hogarth now live together.
A negro PANIED Sam steenburgh, who was huns
for the murder ofJacob S. Parker at Amsterdam
N. Y, confessed to having committed eleven differ
ent murders, the first when only II years old ais
to various burgaries, robberies, and incendiar
fires in and around Amsterdam.
Philip Blumenstock of Brooklyn, a German, IS
years of age, committed suicide Sunday, by taking
arsenic. The cause is unknown. Henry Seabod
a German of Brooklyn 81 years of age, also com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat with razor
| The cause was disappointment in love-
Martin Singer, at Union Hill, j, Sunday un
dertook to shoot supposed mad dog, but the lat
ters antics prevented his taking aim. Singer thei
dubbed his gun and struck at the dog,but missed
and the stock striking the pavement the gun wen
of. inficting fatal wound in Singers leg.
Kate santon, while under the influence of liquo
at Lawrence, Mass, Saturday night. assaulted he
husband, James, with stove litter, knocking hin
nsensbc and fracturing his skull He will
probably die. The woman was arrested and sal,
she was willing TO hang if she had killed him.
| Col. Salisbury, mayor pro tenn, and owner of tn
Enquire and sun at Columbus, Ca, fatally
shot, saturday, by Dr.. Palmer. The latter ha,
sued Salisbury for $50 900 damages to his charac
ter by publications and the Jury awarded him one
cent. Salisbury died Sunday. Palmer Ned, and
reward is offered for his arrest.
Several robbers, Saturday night broke into
farm house near the village OF Norris, Mich, occu
| pied by Anthony Miller and Matthew billiard
Hard was Knocked down and fegned insensibi
| ty. They then shot Miller dead ransacked th,
house, but got little. After they lett, II liart
aroused the neighbors but no trace of the robber