Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-03
News and Gossip.

University library Iuilding costing 100000.
Atwarren, Pa, W. IL. Andrews. well known
me- chant, was shot at an early hour the 2itn, by
a burglar
Minister Turner of Liberia, says the scheme Of
coonizing that country win southei n negroes is
great fraud.
A Constantinople dispatch says the dIssatisflc.
ton tnere at the progress of affairs at the congress
is increasing.
Auti-Jewish riots have occurred at Kalish, Poland
synagogues, houses and shops were burned.
Many Jews were killed.
Itis reported that thirty-dve thousand girls of
professedly Protestant famIes are Attending Cath
ole schools in this country.
The centennial anniversary of the battle OF Mon
month fought on the 2sth of June, lis, was cele-
brated at Freehold n. j., Friday.
The death of Marshal paraguay d'IIIers re-
,luces the number of Marshals of France to three
Mac Mahon, Canrobert and LeU@uf.
Isidore Langton was killed by lightning at Nor
treal the s7th. His wife was standing by his side
and miraculously escaped uninjured.
II will be found that those who are talking most
lou lily about nomn Itins Grant in 1851 are getting
nothing from the present Administration.
Two very Gigrant cases of imm lralty on thu
part of priests in Belgium lately have served Ia
heighten the bitterness Of the opposition party.
Cardinal Franchi has addressed a circular to the
Roman Catholic prelates OF Germany lnstructine
Them to spare no efforts in combating socialism.
lie is sailor. and a hard working inoffensiv'
man. but his wife's character is of the very wort
sort The girls dead. The others will probably
recover.
There was a large falling of in the number OF
failures in New 70 city, during June, compared
with May Fi(y-four are reported, with liabilities
of Il 3l?,O3O.
| The democrats on the Potter committee are mol
particularly pleased with Gov. llendr"k' spubr
statement that he regards the inquiry both Had.
vised and failure.
At Philadelphia, George W. stiles shot his wife
the breas', AMI cut the throat OF his three yea
| old child, and afterwards his own. All three wet
| removed to the hospital.
A portion OF the tunnel near Schwelm, Germany
fell f iday night burning p persons. Seven bod
es were taken out, and tn search for the bodies
| uf the victims is continued.
Three men were arrested at Recalling, Pa, fol
| lealing in counterfeit grernbacks, 500 GOT the
| stuff has been passed on the farmers of Berks
Lancaster and Lebanon counties.
Cox Fairfield (vt.) wrestler, and II. n. Dufu'
Of Malboro wrested for four hours ard half o.
| the Boston baseball grounds til, 21th, but tn,
| match was finally declared draw.
A young girl named Catherine NJ, Richards, .
| Vest winfield, y. Y, who was found dead in he
lathcr's barn. the 18th, Is believed to have beel
| murdered by her lover, Myron Buell..
Gov. lIartranft declines to be a candidate for tn
Unired states Senate in Pennsylvania. His actor
IS though to make it reasonably certain that Sena
| tor Don Cameron will b. reelected.
The Widow divers suit ag inst Simon Cameron
or breach of prom is still pen ling 10 the W ash
ugtnn courts, and was called up last week, bu
Jos tponed again, this time Til October.
Geo, &c Gilbert was struck by lightning at Elmi
az. Y and was hurled from the top of Il SINAI
,uiliins to the ground, distance of hfeet. H.
vas not killed but Que side was paralyzed.
Mrs. jerks thinks the wldower Butler is " jus
peaurirul, "and when he smiles he is perfcctl
ovel,." But" when he sits up straight and trie
| ollok important, then he is simply horrid. "
| The American Consul at Tahiti, Mr.. Atwater, in
tends to make that place his residence for lie. HI
nducemenl thereto is his marriage to the nativ
r'rncess Moetia, member of the royal fimily.
John Finn, j tmea Shea, Katie and Hattie Sand
md Mary WEIGH, all belonging to an excursion
party fl ON st Johns church OF Oswego n. Y, wer
drowned at Plea SAINT Point, Lake Ontaro, the 2jlt
The Quebec rioters who broke into a Gour stor
md stole 100 barlels of flour on prcteuce of BEN
N danger Of starvation, sold it to giocers fl
81 SOC barrel, and used the money in buym
Shskey.
; The han Is employed in Jersey city Tobacco
factory signal zed an excursion TO Englewoo
park Perth Amboy, Saturday by robbng the hot
tud private houses and stoning the police, and .
of them were arrested.
"Go home, you vulnerable devils, go home !
said Artemus Ward to congress- in 1861. What wuul
he have s. to the 18th if he had lived? We lear h
you'd have specified with even more particulaiit
: where he wanted them to so.
The III st response to the Ohio democratic cor
| ventlon is not auscipious. 1t comes IN the shap
# deialcation OF $780,, 90 by the democratic count
ressurer of stark county-the fourth case Of tn
? sort among such officials within the past tw
years.
A terrible bail and rain storm passed over I'll
southern portion OF Chenango county, n. Y, I'll
l.th. The crops were pounded Nat. culver
was washed out ofthe diand Railroad. A loct
g motive and 81 coal cars ran INTO chasm. No on
Was hurt.
Miss Jeanette Bennett, sister Of James Gordo
Bennett, Is about to be married to Baron Ros
S more, British peer. NJ and Miss Bennett al
expected in New York July 9th, and the wedlIn
vii be In that CITY. Miss BennetCs fortune
estimated at $1,000 900.
II hIt in lOianI- Jgih and 9th
Q ever known in June, the temperature in the shat
l. IN Lon lon being nlnety.one degrees. At Notlin
nam, tue thermometer rose Thursday TO n'net,
i've degrees ahd the temperature in the sdu
. Kew Observatory exceeded 40 degrees.
The will of VIM. Z. Rhineander, of New loI
It who recently died leaving an estate valued at sl(
. 0O0,O0u, gives legacies 10 seveal charitable ns
lutons and hospitals, and leaves all the rest of Il
estate IN the care Of executors and trustees TO I
: vide into AS many equ shares us there are CHI
dren surviving the testatol or TO their issue.
An excursion party in Boston bay cannot AR
xactly as 10 the sea mon Ter that they think Tn
saw. They generally describe It, however, as h.
ing huge bull log head, covered with mass
mir; mouth oiled with three or four rows
eeth; cleaning eyes; Il body tea or twelve IL
long Lapcring into a tai no one knows how lol
|. and having the capacity to utter deep toned roa
a. "Go straight, young man, the maiden SAID,
i" And get your head sandpapei.ed;
G. For, by yon moonl III never wed
, A fellow with fowzy headw
lie went. And now the dies delight
. To roo3I upon HIM day and uIgnt,
and nun sweet praises while tn " bite.
,. st. Louis JOUrftd
81. The Russian hospitals near the mouth of
Danube are filled to oyethOwing with eases
IS yphus, and the majority of patients are now un'
v canvas. An epidemic Of the same disease is pr
k. ilent among the tu. troops in Asia MIN 'r, Il
the mortality ,ntInues to be very great. Alb,
D. dy of the medical stan nave already fallen vict
i 10 the disease, the spread OF which Is favored
the excessive moisture.
OF San Francisco has police justice who deals {
r. The terrors of the law mainly with view to fiji
H. the municipal trsrsury, and there is hardly a
offence on which he is empowered to admits
judgment but may be alon, for by a cash p
nent. He is a profitable judicial officer, pccunl
'y though he may be a loss otherwise. The lii
imposed by him on an average day loot up o.
, Two thousand dollars. Among the s'nteuces we