Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-08
News and Gossip.

Bayard Taylor has arrived In Berlin.
Tweed's life was insured for s20 600.
The Lachine cenal opend on Monday.
Congress hall, the Saratoga hotel. has been sold
for Sl2j, 900 under foreclosure.
There are ,7Oj convcts in Sing Sing state
prison, the largest number ever confined there.
Asa consequences of tie late revival meetings,
about 800 persons have Joined the churches in Hart
ford.
The last ruinor to date is that the English gov
eminent are buying arm in small lots at the
west,
The British government has ordered million
pounds in weight of lint and other appliances Tor
the wounded.
The South Chicago, wooded mills at Hyde Park,
employing 1900 persons, burned Saturday night
| Loss 100000.
Minnesota's crops of all kinds are in The most
forward condition. She goes third better on
wheat than she did last year.
Mrs. Mary Smell is Missouri centenarian who
counts up $50 living descendants. She walks Two
miles every day for exercise
In Palmyra, n. Y, Monday night Chas. TORI
stabbed and instantly killed James A. Porter. Both
| were drunk. The murderer escaped.
Sunday ni.ht four negro children who were
| locked up at home In Tayler. Texas, while their
mother was at church, were burned TO death.
Ex.Secretary Brstow told one of the Post siafl
saturday that he was out of politics, and propos-
ed to attend to his own business IN the future.
Laiyk Pasha declared Turkey will observe
neutrality in the event Of war between Englant
and Russia, and cause her own territory to be re-
spected
| Fritz Meyers, u notorious horse thief, was taken
| from jan at Beev,lle, Kansas on ,turiay night,
anil hanged by mob Of 40 men, armed and
masked.
Gen. Mcclellan is so strong in the muscle that he
can double quarter dollar between his forednger
and thumb. lie has also other ways of doubling
his money.
| 1t Is the opinion of the Cincinnati Commercial
that there will presently be no need of repeating
| the bankrupt law . there will be nobody left to
take advantage of It,"
Frank Motion told a Telegram man that he knows
morning. of any conspiracy with Tton to ruin
| l,eecher. That he has one confidential friend only
named Frank Mouon.
At Hyde Park, Mass, Andrew Rooney brings
suit for % 0lO damages against the pastor OF the
| Rooney considers personal.
The Free Press says; I'll. 3. Fletcher tson of our
townsman, Cotton Fletcher), who was supposed t.
have been lost at the EuIvice disaster, has since
turned up at Calcutta, in the merchant service.
| The Hamhletonlan stallion RsIngham, once
valued at 81, 900, was shot Saturday ut Mid1letown
n. Y. He had become unmanagable. During his
life he had killed three persons and crippled TWEEN
ty.
Futher investigation relative to the wheat crop
in Ohio, shows that in some parts OF the State 1t i;
too rank and dense rne leaves on the stalks neal
the ground are becoming slightly yellow, and rust
is feared.
Nightly robberies and an unusual number o.
ramps in Omaha have caused the organization of 1
vigilance committee OF one hundred and fifty, who
Saturday, searched the CITY thoroughly and will dc
so nightly.
AT Palmyra, n. Y, a four story brick building,
occupied by liougham Royce Co., hardware, fell
recently whi.e undergoing repairs. killed Samue
rraul. The building and large stock of hard
ware are complete ruins.
W. S. O'Brien OF the wa-known San Francisco
banking irn Of rloo u o'Brien, died at ST. Rafael
Cal last week. lie was u btcheIor. HIS property
is vaguely estimated dt Is to 20 millions. but it is
estimated that rumor has magnllied his wealth.
Saunders Mccullough, wealthy citizen of OK
fordborough, Pa, was awakened by a burglar
alarm, friday night, and in the excitement and
darkness shot his wife, who was also cropping
about the ROOM and it is thought she cannot re-
cover.
T The Mexican border troubles were considered in
cabinet council Saturday, and the secretary OF war
mas ordered Gen. Ord to exercise the utmost vigil
lance in preventing any invasion of Mexican ter
ritory with hostile intent from the American side
, of the Rio Grandc.
While the Erie lightning express train was sweep
ing down the valley Of the Delaware, last Wedues
day the en- sineer saw little gl wa king the tract
Within two seconds she was overtnken, and til,
train passed the spot where she had stood. The
, Engineer stepped upon the guards of the locomo
tive, and the chill cling ing to the catcher
f He succeeded in resculny her as she was about t,
roll 10 the ground. She was slightly cut about The
face, but escaped without further injury.