Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

The greenbackers are said to be jubilant
over The accession TO their party of ex-
Governor Brown, leading Mississippi
politician.
Glover. the great congressional investi-
gator, has added one more feather TO his
plume by choking witness who didn t
say what he wanted him TO.
Boston has long talked of tunnel TO
Charlestown, and it is now proposed to
build one on shore, float it to the site chos-
en- and sink it into place.
There is now no magic in Tildcn's name.
The country to-day knows that he and re-
form are hardly bowling acquaintances.-
NsnlphiS (Ienn.) AUaldHche.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor is noble wo-
man. In ten years she has secured homes
and the means of livelihood for about 4jO
homeless children, ut n cost of about S67,-
000
Miss Mary Dalton, daughter OF the late
Police Captain Dalton of New York city,
has become insane over a Disappointment
in not obtaining situation rs teacher in
the public schools. She is Il gradule Of
! Vassar.
The judges of the probate of this state
held meeting in Burlington Tuesday, to
arrange forms of procedure and rules to
practice, under the state bankrupt ltw, TO
be submitted to the supreme court for APP
proval.
Another Baltimore Judge of elections,
Martin Burns, has been found guilty of
hndering II United States supervisor in the
discharge of his duty, was sentenced TO
twelve months Imprisonment and fined
five dollars and costs.
c. Il. Murray, cashier of the Exchange
Bank of Montreal, has absconded with
$4,000. The bank holds the guarantee
bond of aninsurance company for $40 900.
1t was stock speculation that led to Muir
rays crime.
a safe containing relics of the ccnlcn-
NAL was locked up Monday. to remain
closed for one hundred years and num-
Der of public men gathered to witness the
ceremony and hand themselves down to
posterity by putting in their photographs
with other curiosties.
w. D. Minis Of Rutherfordton, Ruther-
ford county; Forny Willis, Lyons Land
ing, Bladen county, and Walter Rever,
Fayetteville, Cumberland county, all of
North Carolina (blind), inmates of the
deaf and dumb and blind institution,
Raleigh, are studying law under Judge
Strong of that state.
Women are exhibiting themselves rs
pedestrians in all Of the large cities in the
country, end generally their performances
are ridiculously poor. Mrs. Andersons
feat Of walking 2,700 quarter miles in
200 quarter hours has been beaten by
May Marshall, in Washington, and Mrs |
LII Chappelle, in Chicago.
In breach of promise lawsuit, in Mar
shalltown, Iowa, the plaintiff swore that
he broke the engagement with the dnfend- |
ant because, when he slipped and fell on |
the ice, she laughed unleelingly. She
swore that she laughed because he would
not have fallen if he had not bowed with |
superiluoIs poitcness to young woman.
There are worse things even than an
extra session of congress, and the turning
over of the army to Hayes-that is to |
John Sherman & Co.-f0r use ut next
years elections would be one of those
things, Any yielding by the House on
this point will be betrayal Of the people /!
and treason to civil liberty. -NcO Yorh
Sun.
David Peters, a negro, has for ten years
been Il convict in the Rhode Island state
prison. He was uneducated when he en-
tered, but Immediately became n hard
student, and has spent all of his leisure in |
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CRIME IN TEXAs.-TcXans take to crime
as diversion nowadays rs much as
they ever did apparently. f. III. Edmond
buck shot Yesterday in front of the post
Office ut Galveston, without any assigned
reason. Last week II, D. Chapman OF
''IS"'' ~ '',"l. ",'U NV i1"''1i VI tno
of the court honsc. and mosEeJ hiohwov.
men robbed two MESSENGERS and he mil
bars on the stnro from Fort Worth tn
Fort Ynm,. within the limits of the fnrmor
Town.
INDIANS wo freight Wagon'traln'
we're attacked near RapI0 City. Dakota,
ny Indians VINO hred several vo!ieys INTO
the town TO prevent II rescue by the CHI
zGhs. AnoIhef oahd' believed to be Little
Springs station on the Bismarck road,
killing one man and running off four
horses. Two companies of the 7lh cavalry !
under Capt. French started from Port
Mead in pursuit of the savages.
Chief Moses is very much disappointed
1t the refusl Il of the government to let his
people have the reservation asked for in
the far northwest last fall. lie SAYS he
will try to persuade them to accent some
other. but cannot vouch for the manner in
which they will receive the refusal.
The latest reports from Dexter, Me-,
confirm the General immersion that there +
il M CornJ,,io, far tho ,boorv tho, parro,
was defauIler and suicide. The stories 6
of q suspicious soldier seen at New Port
land just after the Barron tragedy give no