Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-15
News and Gossip.

Newcastle, DEL, on saturday,
A heavy frost throughout Wisconsin, Sunday
night it jured fruit, corn and potatoes.
The grape and cherry crop in Iowa was much
damaged by the recent snow storm and frost.
In the milan Territory the style of mourning
has been changed from black 10 spotless white.
A Mississippi tramp lived just twenty zone
minutes after stii liking a farmers wife with an axe.
The trustees ofihe Union savings hank, of Provi
dence, u. l., have voted TO wind up the institution
themselves.
Many of the vermontcrs who emigrated to T, xas
last winter are dissatisfied with the country, and
will soon return.
Although the Pope is suffering from iLnamma-
ton of The liver the cardinals oppose his removal
from the Vatican.
In Enrllnd the war party have had serious re-
verses 10 the local elections. The Liberals have in
varably been successful.
Amo5 hange a horse thief in Kansas, and pion-
ell the ms ;riplIon his back" rus man was not
the noblest work of Cod"
In New York, Lewis Bohmke, years old, found
his fathers revolver. in bureau drawer, and Tho
his baby brother dead In play.
The Rjan OF ripperah, TO insult the British 60
| 'pLrrots, 5Seetm ;Its an spinning wheels" |
| Connec icut cabbage growers are fur from being
disnteresed spectators Of tue struggle n Congress
ovei the prupOs ltion to reduce the tObacco tax.
| A citizen o:Louisv!lle has the pistols used by |
Aaron Burr in h 5 duel with Alexander Hamilton
rhey are said 10 have been used in eleven encount
| ers.
| A Montreal firm of iron. founders has obtained
The contract for converting 40 old smooth bore
cannon into Palllser rhtd guns for use in the d.
mniOn.
Eliz beth McKeown Of Philldelphii. who sued
Thomas Brown, md lie aged man, for breach OF
PROMISE received Il verdict of SlEjO in her favor On
| saturday.
Sitting Bull says that he is coming back from his
abode in Canada with 800 well equipped WARRIOR
this Sc tsou to geI possession OF his old haunts' o
die in the attempt
Tue deputy Acknowledgment OF Canada receivet
instructions TO distribute arms and ammunition
to the volunteers along the American border auu
mold the force in readiness.
The summer residence at Newport, r. /. of tn,
late Alexander Van Resselaer Of New York, Wa,
burned ) turday. 1t had been broken into ant
goods of unknowu value stolen.
A COW was recently killed at Fergus Falls, Ont.
IN the stomach of which found stick two fee
long and half an inch in diameter. She had evlden
ly taken in wood as well as water.
DR.. bio Lewis is reported to be so very ill witt
congestion of the brain and partial paralysis of III
left side, that he has been Obliged to give up hi
project of conducting camplns.party.
Dispatches from America reporting apprehen
sion ola communists outbreak are attracting gen.
eral attention in Enya H. The general opinion il
that the communists will get the worst Of it,
Capt. Rpdcnhausen, Capt. Gribenburg and f)u
other of1iters, left the Cimbria suddenly for New
York on steamer. The officers now make no my
tery OF any ihng but profess ignorance any plans.
Murray Hoffman, one of the ollest members Of
the New York Gar, the highest authority on eccles
astical law and eXJudse Of the Supreme Court OF
the State died Tuesday at his residence in Flushing
l.. l., aged 81 years.
Mr. Bancroft, the historian, Saturday visited the
naval academy at Annapolis, for the first time il
80 years. The founding The academy was mainly
due 10 Bancrofts exeruons while secretary of lht
navy under President Polk. "
A tramp saved night train on the Kentucky Ce
trail Rail- Dad from destruction, by signaling it VIII
his shirt that he had stripped from of his back am
set on lre, He had Discovered large tree that hnd
blown across the track, and adopted this methoc
to pi event an accident.
, The permanent exhibition at Philadelphia, which
has been closet for some time, was formally rcor-
,ned Friday. Large crowds as embed to witncs
The ceremonies Senators Blaine, Bayard an
Wallace were present. Mr.. Blaine made speech
IN which he defended protection.
A Blackburn dispatch says the rotng which be.
| n In
: next evening. A hundi ell ant eSepty policemen
med with cutlasses, were engaged several houi'
quellny the disturbance. Several constables an
, rioters were injured and considerable damage
done.
| 1t less than month since the secretary of thu
Treasury sold the >yndIcate ,lOOO60lO of IA pn
c, mt bonds and rave them the option Of taknt
S4Uc 900 more IN So 900 0O0 lots before the irst
Japualy; and all eaiy 81 900 00Uha been taken.
the NJ ~, June and July options having been an
tlcpated.
| On the 9Th, tramp entered the house Of plat
, ter miles south of oxford Miss, wh) was absen
at the time. and alter attempting to outage tn
lady OF the house struck her on the head with
axe from which she diet. number of men pur.
med and captured the villain IN the woods near
} Oxford lie is doubtless lynchcd by this time.
Samuel Is. Hale went IRON Boston to the Argen'
tine Republic twenty years aao and has become {"
ronsn le able farmer there. His farm contains p
0iO acres oil rich prairie lanl, enclosed with heaV\
wire fence. lie keeps an average OF llO,OOO sheep
from which The yirll of wool, tlow aud skim is
enorm ms lie also has BOD beeves, 500 horse i,
{ and hoo hogs.
II Is reported that President Hayes received a
letter from an individual IN Vermont, who wrote
ID, string to see Washington TO The best advantage
write to ak Non if can make my headquarters
with you at the Executive Mansion, rs | have /
njudice against stopping at hotels, and the pr
vate boa ing houses are not quite up to my stan
dard OF living"
Tho " drive" of spruce logs that IL now coming
down the upner Cpnnecttcut, contains 100000
feet anrl Il inchlrS, OF 2il ma. rlt logs were
cut on Indian river, tributary of the ConnecIcu
and cost on the river INK dve dollars per thous-
and. Nine million feet are for the lumber comp my
at McInoes Falls. rhe BALANCE, thirty mi Il on, &C
l to turner's Falls, Mt Ton tai i'lyok', Mass,
Mott, the spirit maerlalizer, Of Memphis, Mis-.
: souri,, was exposed the 9th, by ]. II Plattee, o
Monmouth, II inois, who attended the seance am
squirted anahne through ing he had prepared
the puIpo into the lace of one of the spirits wnci
appeared at an aperture of the cabinet. The lace
, at once lisappcared lights were brought in, ant
Mott was founl with his face covered with an lime
staines.
y At Bath, N. b., the sh, a Miss Smith drowned
herself and child, six years old She had been a
work in Lewiston. and was engaged to the over
I seer of the mill, but the engagement broker
t by him, i'm hearing that he WAS married. she took
her Legitimate child TO the river, bound it, threw
t it in and jumped IN after it. man threw her
long scarf, which she violently flung from her AM
i peiished
During the third day of the battle OF Getty SD rgh
v John e. Cutler, Of Springfield. member of Co. e
Il 10Th regiment Vermont Volunteers, threw away hi
napsack containing among other ARTICLES, stencil
. plate giving his name, regiment, etc none o
y which he expected to see again. but singula
ly enough short timc SINCE the stencil plate was
poughed up on the old battlefield and has been re
) turned to him.
= Hon d. X. Bailey, late of st. Adams, has one @
i, the best farms in 81. CroiX county, Wis. He ha
upwards of 425 acres Of wheat this year. 70 acres O.
y grass, 1870 in pasture and Is clearing Off 81 more