Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-12-25
News and Gossip.

After chase OF 100 miles Texan sheFiH cap I
ured nine year.old murderer
A thief nj Alamosa, NJ. T., has distinguished MN
o,f hv s,eaJinu n saw.mil and all the apparatus
connected herewith.
During a aght amllg trInPs at AN W.
our we're badly beaten and one was thrown up0"
railroad track aud killed by the train. ID
There is now no legal state treasurer IN Ntsin'a
he treasurer-elect, Mr.. Hunter having io'so''e"
% qualify within the appointed Tune
A tunnel is proposed under tire north river DC
tween New York and Jersey City, to be three miles
long and to cost ten millions of dollars.
Gen. Grant has sold his fourteenth street CIRCLE
in Washington to Ohio lady for $21VVO'
The properly cost Gen. Grant slSOJO.
Anthony J. Thomas, of New York, has bought
the Illinois and st. Louis bridge for ten Millions
paying $4,000 in gold to bind tile bargain.
The funeral of Minister Taylor was held at the
American legation Berlin, on Sunday. The re-
mains will remain in mortuary and be taken to
America.
In Boston, Saturday, vncenzo CassliO tied his
young son to the roof of the house and beat him
with II strap aud left him there. Tho son will
probably die.
president and treasurer Of the Market Street Rail
way Company Of Phila Iephia, have been scntenc-
ell to state prison for ten years |
Sixteen Mole Maguires in Pennsylvania have
now paid the penalty for the anarchy and blood
shed they created from 1852 up to 1916. Three
more are under sentence of death.
Judge Hilton sent word last week that Mrs. Stew
art desired to contribute 800 to each of three He
brew charity societies. One society de lined the
oher aud the other two have given no answer.
The west of England and south of Wales Distric
Bank has hopelessly gone under. The whloe capl.
tai and reserve funl is lost, and the shareholder
will he liable for further dehc ency of 81 800 900
The.Bryant commemoration meeting will he held
at the New York Academy of Music VI onday even
ing Dec. 80. A discourse on the life, character and
writings of William Cullen Bryant will be deliver
cd by George William Curtis.
Profs, Hanson anil Thompson, of Philadelphia,
have exhibited an electric light which they claim
solves the problem of cheap lighting. The light is
produced by the incandescence of carbon joints,
and not by burning as in others.
There are only about 600,00) Protestants in
France, That religious enmily, however, has
) nearly altogether died out may be inferred from
the fact that no fewer than five ministers in the
present cabinet long to the Reformed faith.
passenger train on the Grand Rapids ant
, indiana Railway struck Il cutter containing john
McIndre, his wife and three children, near Plain
wall, Mich, Thursday Mclndre was instantly
killed his wife and one child were fatally injured
The Northern Pacific Railway is looking up, once
more The directors have just accepted a bid fol
building one hundred miles ofthe Missouri division
u and have ordered revision of the surveys of the
u second hundred miles to Yellowstone, preparatory
I, to letting out the work on that.
: The body of MIR. wray the missing preacher, o.
New brunswick, n. j., was found in the New Yorl
morgue. lie was arrested in the street while unde,
q the influence of opium and sent to Jail for ten day
for drunkenness. Afterward he was taken tc
. Bellevue Hospital where he died.
IL At Cohoes, N. y, Wednesday night, Patrick
e Rourke and his family of five children were con
n sumed in the burning of their home. AT Wilkes
- barre, Pa. a little girl was burned to death
- Thursday her clothes taking fire by stove, and q
~ mother and her child were burned TO death a
6 Allenstown, Pa.
II call has been issued By the members of tht
executive committee of the national party of New
:, England for mass conference of the represents
tves OF the party at Boston, on January ,, for tn
\
- natizaton of the party ETC. General Butler ha
II slgnfed his intention of being present.
q Dr. Schliemann is again in luck. lie has htel
- uneai thed i've separate treasures, each compose
. of numerous bracelets, earrings and Jumps @
- gold. His latest find" is bronze vessel in whc
u were some bronze axes, as well as some sve
10 ornaments the bulk OF the contents, however cor
80 sisted of gold earrings, bracelets, beas and bar
u of gold.
In Brooklyn between Jan an Nov. -, of tn
49, present year, one thousand six hundred and thlrt
eight buildings Of various kinds have been actual
W erected, and of these over one thousand are dive
ing houses. The amount of property that has bee
n added to the wealth of Brooklyn during the
~ months is six millions i've hundred and twent
~ FIVE thousand seven hundred aap forty.two dc
IN lars.
q A few weeks ago cremation society was formC
n, at indianapolis, and among the reasons assitnt
nc for this step are that cremation the bodies of Il
no dead puts an end to the shocking business of IL
10 a resurrectionists for the purpose of supplyir
no dissecting shops with subjects, and that the pre-
~ ent existing node Of conducting funerals Is SUI
~ as to bear with terrible weight on the poor, usua
t'0 at time when they can least afford to meet I
- expense.
rs Evansville, Qnd) has Il case OF body snatchir
- Frnnk NJ. Murphy, a respectable painter, W
N buried last Sunday and his wife received an ano
- nous note Thursday instIucting her to 90 to
AZ medical college and she would discover his DO
She followed instructions, and the police have Il
en- possession of the building. She Identified
cy body, which was partially dtssecteI. by marks
ne an initial on an An inquest is oenS b
with the intention of getting at the persons "
tha nd q
Nm pected.
u.s. The Mack murder trial is making q sensation
TO GAINESVILLE, Wis, Frank Dckerson, aged tween
&C. three having confessed his criminal relations "
les Mrs Belinda Mack, pretty woman Of thirty t
FRY with three daughters the eldest one agc1 foure
.ud She promised to marry him after her husband ,
ia put out of the way. and. her paramount swe;
in killed Mack and having carried the boiy to
ted stable hil it on the hopr behind the horse, VIII
oh she led several times over the corpse to max
are seem that her husband had been kicked and tr
the pied to death.
out Trenor w. Park and Tom Scott, OF tennsylVa
lost arc in New York making arrangements Tor pusl
lpe the work oftunnens under the Hudson River
ent tween New York and Jersey City. New imp
IAN has been given by the ACCESSION u 'n' c'hP'"S
~, Mr. Park: and a number of Chicago men are
ling hold of the enterprise in a practical sort otV
Mr. Park says the tunnel will prove Of immense
vantage to both cities. but New York will rece
non the most benefit. Enough capital will be fc
the coming, he says About Sl0O)O0ll will be req
act gu W w 'no ~, noI n ho three mics long
on inclination will be very slight and the W
or when once completed will cost nothing for
,or pairs.
he
min The New Jersey republicans propose
led. reform some of the excrescences
oed anachronisms in the anticipated judi
ant system OF that state.