Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-11-06

expanding S24o'ooo upon an
Persons who have their tender plants 10
rost. bitten NAV be glad to know that lie
7nglisb Gardeners thaw them out success
nIiy by sprinkling them copiously with ~ ~
,old water.
Tn the Hartford Courants opinion Tiden .
will 90 down to history rs the man VINO "
verv nearly bought his way into the White r;
House. and failed at last not so much from
lack of opportunity as from indecision' O
The New York Tribune says that nepew a
Pelton went on himself to Baltimore with 5
the cash $3.50, 0OO) to meet Smith Weed ;
when the latter arranged n meeting there
tn deliver the South Carolina bride money.
The Tribune infers that Mr.. Pelton would
not have pone on himself merely to say ;
he couldn't bring the money, ana tnat
therefore he probably had the money with
him.
Noting the defeat of the bill allowing
women to vote in school meetings. the
Springfield Republican says The reform
moves slowly in Vermont, but the debate
showed that more men in the ureeh
Mountain state are yearly getIlng 'he,r
ewes open to the absurdity OF the olu
theory that woman Is constltutiohaiiy uhhU
for the ballot.
The Boston Post says that eight weeks
ago. when the treaty of Berlin was III
danger, Blsmark appealed to the signalo-
ries to defend it. England, who then re-
: iected the request now appeals to Austria
and France, the supposed adversarles oil
Russia, for the purpose oil feVlVihS lno
Crimean alliance. Such attempts are use
less. Furthermore, England by fostering
D iealouses certainly will not succeed Ill
, preventing friendly relations between
e bulgaria and Greece,
About $50 ladies attended the Woman
Board of Missions in Burlington the SUN,
l. The proceedings of the forenoon consiS'e"
l. of the reading of reports, and remarks ny
e Mrs Barnes of Boston and Mrs. Snow
n The attendance in the afternoon was very
LARGE, the church peing we'll filled. TX
cee1inoly interesting remarks were mace
NV Miss Ely, of Btlis, Turkey; Mrs" W
e. Reimer of Cevlon, and others. Oillcers
-. for thc ensuing year were elected MIS-
~ Gov Fairbanks being reelected president
~ ana resolntions adopted. A social gather
rs mo followed in the church parorS.
L. AN ALLEGED CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA.-
Ills Earosene oil is said to have been discover
=. ed to be IL very simple but eifectual remed
ny for the much dreaded disease, diphtherl;
i The discovery was made in Chazy' N I
mt, and the remedy is now extensively used
of ,hat vicinity. Take a swallow of 1t In
E q the month and use it rs a gargle: II Il pc
lion ha swallowed it will not inlure, b
er- rather promote the cure. A Mrs Jelie
ter. Of Chazv. had five children ill ut one llI
nal who were cured by it; in the same W
J.. , dozen other cases were also cured
cording to the statement III INC LII
'o'' burgh Sentinel
n.y. Sunday night. Henry Reed, who keep
ont boarding house at Dover Lending N.
l. discharged gun loaded with small 81
ina ot a crowd of boys, and about 30 shot tt
looA effect in the neck and shoulders OF Jt
;tce Mprdock. II years old, A large Gro
soon surrounded the house, and threats
gard lvnchinp were made. The police succe
tbi. ed in arresting Reed and getting, him
=, - the station. He is sober. lndustri
heio man but quick tempered The boys n
The Given him much trouble of late. Murd
on Il Is seriously wounded, but may reco'
,,nre Tn the police court today, Reed was
to iail in default of $1,000 bail.
the THOSE CANADIAN TwINs.-The Sill
,shed lar Canadian twins of st. Benolt
,,;oon been taken to Philadelphia, and exam
''i0',n in a hospital clinic by Prof. William
IS l. Pancoast, who made an autopsy OF
ity. Siamese twins after their death two
mo to auo and is an expert in teratology'
aa,o Tie science of this sort of monstrosl'
'. called, He found the twins to be
prettv Girl babies, united at the mp
having but two legs. like single
Il as a though possessed of two heads, Tour
,r and separate brains. 1t was disco
\hyJ that the twin babies had separate
appro- and hearts, the union beginning at the
$4,000. of the ribs and forming one navel
.,o,. common digestive and generatlve or
"oo'' This is the only pair of the sort ever
city IN alive. and their chances OF living sc
,hment oood as those of children OF their age
heii0'' The statement of the receipts an
Sher- penditures Of the post office depar
c army shows an aggregate of postal revenu
y, stat Grants from the treasury during the
around of 1884, $50, 100; expenditures, S3f, II
-, into leaving an excess of receipts over
ditnres of S42O,085. Part of the n
mere h0 drawn from the treasury during thu
home. was. however, appropriated on acct
onaoroa the deficiencies of previous yeers.
ono0i. not revenue for the year from |
4llers in noo 49, ,,,ns e16 $40 / is AGAINST 81
ICE COM o95 Of last wear. Stamps, stamped
a side ones. etc, sold, $27,375,563 agains
., moro 757, 515 in 1877. The report is
y 'Ao'' nanied bv twenty-nine tables exhb
the mid l'''hi n ~ ~ tr,nsactions of the depa,
t he has From the table Showing the operat
nmon to tbe money order Office, it appears
revenue from this source for the ye
5000 G47 against 500, 14S for the P
which year.
IL which DAVID NAyERRo, THE FAT Bo
I'VE been Rochester, Union thus describes tn
=, Irn;tod crown American youth a." He was
Rochelle, Illinois, II years ago.
lacI iol time of his birth he weighed BIT
csc coius nonnds. and continued to be smf
iSlt tliaV until he was six years oil, when
lcaiiy lor sudden he began to grow. AMI a
IN oe GU years of age he weighed 80 poun
his eighth birthday he weighed ~
If hear. and continued gradually to incr
~ no;'n, :, on his eleventh birthday he wels
'efo's,h' pounds. The next year he Incl
sand lives weight to tho tune of so pour
enormous heinz weighed when twelve yea
sanitary was found to kick the beam at 1928
, $50 ~. In his thirtoeth year he suffered
Sn''n us from typhoid fever, which redu
3. " No somewhat in flesh but on recover
" or num- this disease he soon regained wha
n or hide losl and made up time ut II IA
m ~ n,n,,nitv and on his last and seventeenth
nt sewer he weighed 635 pounds. This
~, stona or winter, and it is probable. judgI
nd rive US past experience, that his avoirdn
IN enforce increased slightly since then. II
nongh to is perfectly good as general IL
i'm" more bis flesh, instead of being habby
49,, sick and sold to the touch, his arm, whit
have heen ures "a inches round the biceps,
it will be a bar of iron. His apparently S
, fntnre - plaint is that the docrs OF the n
loo small for him."