Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-06-19
News and GOSslp,

the other day by making her write the word "whis.
per" goo times.
The latest small political sensation at New York
is Lieut. Gov Dorshelmer's call upon schwAb, the
communist, at his lager beer saloon.
About thousand people uIroed out, the 18th
from Washington and the surrounding country to
decorate the confederate graves at Arlington.
The farm house of John Herald at Madison. Ne,
was burned the other night together with $500
worth oil bon Is total loss 6eOO, insured for s2,oOO.
Oxford university is going to confer the honorary
degree of doctor of common law upon Edwards
Pierrepont late United states minister to England
The 20 res health is declining His physicians
declare that his removal from the Vatican necess
airy to his recovery. but majority ofthe Cardinals
resist.
The senate unanimously elected William E.
Spencer, for many years journal clerk Of the sen
ate to succeed the late William j. Mcdonald as
chief clerk.
In England, a man who separated from his wife
thirty five years ago has returned and offered 10
"kss and make up" A feS days prior to the Offer
the wife had inherited large estate.
Chief Arthur, of the locomotive brotherhood, dc.
MES any project strkeed among railroad men. He
says there never was more harmony between rail-
road officials and employees thin at present.
1t would hardly be supposed that so large an
amount as two m Hon dollars in counterfeit silver
and gold coin i, now aGoat in this country, but
such, according to the estimate Of treasury experts
is the fact.
| Tom Thumb is living at Mildleboro Ugh, Plym-
outh county, Mass. lie is Al years old, has grown
. Ia mil or
but he has squandercd a good deal of his money
IN yachts, etc.
| The marriage of Miss Emily Plat, the pres dents
nece, and Gen Russell Hastings at the white house
June Ii, was the seventh welding which is known
to have been celebrated there. The first occurred
in 1911, Mr.. Madison bel ng president
wire rope in the hosting apparatus which was
lifting strand of the great wire ropes which are
to support the bridge across the E ,st river, New
York, pared on Friday, letting the strand fall into
the river, killing two men and injuring others.
Harvest has begun in Kansas month earlier
than usual. The acreage Of grain is unpreceden ted
and the growth enormous. 1t is said that there al c
not men enough the state to save the crop, with
a the aid that labor saving machinery can give.
A woman who has lived for some time in Nevada
u'oSuioSu do u lldDI was W "OLndD
last autumn. The bride has just revealed The Sc
cret, explaining her silence by saying that she wa
ashamed to acknowledge that she had been SO
imposed upon.
| The London School board has resolved to teach
girls how to cook. One of the teachers is to give
lessons in every school on food and its preparation
and the girls will he required to attend. Twenty
one teaching kitchens ale 10 be oIenod inLondon,
conducted by practical cooks
| The enormous penalty of 81 each has been in.
| hicted by Judge Mackey, at Charleston S c., in
two cases of assault and battery with intent 10
kill In one of the ID shots were fired at the
intersection oftwo of the principal streets, en-.
dangerng the lives of men, women an children.
William Campbell, the Scotch giant, has just died
at Newcastle. Ills coffin was feet long, IL feet
vide and feet 10 inches deep. The window of tne
| room in which he died and brick work to the Level
of the floor had to be taken out, aud the coin was
lowered by means OF a block and tackle to the car
riage prepared to convey it to the cemetery, corpse
and GOTTA weighing over half ton.
| The walls oftwo large trick stores at Rochester,
N, Y, fell with a terrific crash Friday afternoon,
| bury ing number of persons in the ruins. -Four
were recovered alive, but badly injured. One OF
more are likely to die. One building was occupied
by the Graves candy factory, the other by the L..
| ). Express Company, printing OFF sc, g.. rhe
express employees all escaped. Col. n. IL. Smith,
printer, was seriously Injured
| The majority report of the senate committee on
privileges and elections against the suffrage
amendment takes ground that the amendment II
adopted will make several millions of female voters
totally inexperienced IN political afftirs, quite
generally dependent upon the other sex, all incapa-
Oe of performing military duty and without power
to enforce the laws which their numerical ST. ength
may enable them to make, and comparatively few
oil whom wish TO assume the rksome and RESPONSE
Ole political duty which this measure thrusts upon
them, and which many men seek to evade Such
4 change should only be m lde slowly and in re.
Spouse to generals demand. The $4,000 names
asking for this legislation were obtained through
the efforts of woman suffrage societies thoroughly
organized and Jealous, and this small number
compared with that of the Intelligent women in the
country is a striking evidence that the demand is
not general.
Parties in Greensboro have turned treas
ure seekers, having spent week on MI
Mansfield, where they claim chest of gold
was buried by relative years ago, to keep
it from the Indians who were in pursuit.
Henry Olderkirk, John Smith and Chas
F. Howard, who have been shipping cat
tie to the Brighton market and disposing
Of them at prices which detied competi-
tion. have been indicted by Caledonia
county grand jury for stealing the same.
Two Of the deer turned ont by the Rut-
land association, were seen ut Sherburne
the otner day, n man receiving visit
from one of them while he was planting
potatoes. The deer was perfectly tame
and picked up and disposed of the potatoes
faster than the man could cover them.
Ex-Gov. j. Gregory Smith, accompanied
by his wife, son + lward and daughters
Annie and Julia, sail from Boston for Eu-
rope tomorrow on the Cunard steamer
Parthia They propose making a tour of
Great Britain and the continent, and will
return home in September.
In the Orange county court, Chelsea,
Levi Richardson was thursday morning
sentenced to state prison tor two years for
larceny. This is his second term in prison
| for the same crime. No other criminal
case of Importance has been tried before
this court the present session, and the civil
cases in the calendar are few and unim-
portant.
The following amusing incident hap
pened in the Bennington county court: A
prisoner was arraigned to plead an indct-
ment for burglary. He said he wasn't
ready to plead, and didn't cure to plead
either way, adding: "rll tell you, judge,
just how the matter hangs: If don t get
bail tomorrow morning I'm going to plead
guilty, and if do | amt. See?"
Edward Clark of B.attleboro, has in his
possession u commentary on the New
Testament, bound in parchment and print
ed in l6lS, and, therefore, 260 years old.
The commentary was the property of Rev.
Peter Clark, who was for 81 years Con-
gregational clergyman in Danvers, Mass,
and afterward Of Rev. VIM. Clark, his
son. The present owner belongs to the
sixth generation of the descendants of the
former. lie also has book from the same
clergyman's library entitled Critica
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