Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-27


and isn't anxious to get mixed up with
= the Indian bureau business.
- Iowa farmers are ploughing, wheat is a
| foot high in California, corn is ten cents a
bushel in Kansas. and maple trees are in
full leaf in Michigan.
Secretary of the Navy Thompson isn't
one of your eight-hour men himself, and
can't see any reason why the other men in
= the department should be let off with such
short days.
q A man was scared to death in Berryville,
Mo. He was passing a graveyard at mid
night, when two men sprang from behind
D monument and shouted at him. lie ran
home and went TO bed, but was so nervous
that he could not sleep. and before morn
ing he died in commissions.
Hon. J. Clancy Jones died in Reading.
Pa, the other day. aged &C years. He
served in congress. with only brief inter
ruption, from 1850 to 1858. and was for
two years chairman of the ways and means
committee He was also minister to Aus
tria during President Buchanan s admins
traton.
A novelty was at last accounts extern
sively sold in Paris streets. 1t was pic
ture with four heads, those of Queen
Victoria and the Emperor of Austria be-
ing on the top. and those of the Cur and
Sultan below. By folding the picture four
times the united heads formed an ingeni-
Gus picture of Bismarck.
Hangman's day" is certainly getting
rapidly played out. Tennessee hung a
+ man on a recent Thursday, and now, Penn
sylvania executes three OH Monday. 1t is
an interesting query whether the supersti-
ton that Friday is unlucky will lose any
of its strength with this loss of its old
prestige as gallows day.
Mr.. Simmons has published pamphlet
entitled " letters and documents on file in
the treasury department requesting the
retention of William A. Simmons as col
lector at Boston," with the word "private"
at the head of the title-page. Some Of the
gentlemen who recommended his re-
appointment are not well pleased with the
appearance of the document.
THE FISHERY AwARD.-It is said to be
reasonably certain that the message on the
fishery award will be fatal to claimants of
the unexpended balance Of the Geneva
award and that the fishery award of five
and Il half millions will be paid out Of the
eight and half millions of the Geneva
award now held in trust, instead of appro-
prating the money necessary out of the
treasury.
Senator Lamar sent this sentiment to
Augusta Ga, on St. Patrick's Day 1.-The
typical Irishman: His Home -the world |
His friends-al the peoples. Ills fnth-his
own. No cline to him so cold as will not !
produce n shamrock; no soil so barren rs
will not grow shillalah. Foremost ut a
| fight, trolic, or q funeral, his generous
nature finds blow for the bad, smile for
the glad or tear for the sad"
| John l.. Vance, late democratic men,
Der of congress from the eleventh Ohio
district, has mysteriously disappeared.
Recently he received an anonymous letter
osensbly from member of the regiment
in which Vance was colonel, asking an in
terview in II suspicious locality in Covng-
ton, Ky. 1t is feared he has been decoved
thither and assassinated by Il former con
fe lerate soldier with whom he had some |
trouble.
General James Shields is an Irish
American whose opinions are entitled to
the respectful consideration of his fellow
countrymen. He comes out very squarely |
against O'Donovi1 RDsil'S Fenian non
sense He says: mo invasions of Canada,
no secret societies, no conspracies no
tomfooleries, no skirmishing fund" lie
advises instead, organization, agreement.
moderation the union of all in making
hempv O. nf England which the world will
ackes hedge are inst and reasonable. and
which England will consequently be
compelled to heed; and the men of his
race, in this country, will do well to take
his advice.
A destructive fire at Keesville, N. Y,
Sunday, started in the planning mill of
Prescott & Weston's large mandatory.
and was not sub luel until nine buildings
were consumed, rs follows: Prescott &
Weston, $4,000; insurance. $4,000;
Rufus Prescott, house. loss $1,000; in,ur
ance, $500; Methodist church, loss So
900; insurance. $780, Richard Hoag,
loss $4,000; insurance, $4,000, NJ. A.
Thomas. loss $4,000 insurance. 81 800;
o N Kendrick. loss $1,000; insurance.
$1,000; Mechanics tools, loss $1,000;
Widow More, property loss $1,000; C A.
Bigelow, loss $1,000; insurance. $500;
damage to personal, $1,000; Wesleyan
building, loss $1,000; insurance, $500
Total loss 500 400; total insurance, $685.
200 The fire is II heavy blow to the village
which, by the way. has no facilities
whatever for fighting fire.
ANOTHER LAPAGE CRIME.-About ten
years ago, two women, mother and daugh-
ter, walked from their home in IN ad-
joining township to the village of St.
Alexandra, II few miles north of the Yer
mont line, in Canada, on a shopping expe-
diton, intending to return that afternoon.
They walked on the railroad track, to save
distance. They did not return rs expect
ell and on the following morning the anx-
ious husband and Father went in search of
them. AT st. Alexandra he learned that
they had started on their return MS intend, |
ed and that was the last he could hear of
them. The commonly was aroused and
"a general search instituted. Sweeping
along the track and through the adjoining
fields, it was not long before some of the
party found them in II berry pasture. both
murdered, The daughter had been out
ragged and her body mutilated, rs in the
case of poor Josie Langmaid, and there
were indications that the mother had died
in her daughters defence A man named
st. Martin was arrested, but rs lroof was
wanting to convict him, he was released.
1t now appears that Lapage was Il resident
of the neighborhood at that time, and the
people, we hear, are confident that he was
the perpetrator of the triple crime.
The Rosebery- Rothschid wedding ut
London, the Goth, was noticeable rs the
first marriage that has ever taken place
between peer of Great Britain and a lady
OF the Jewish faith. The groom, Earl