Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-05
News and Gossip.

Too many people seem TO believe that debt is
paid when they make note of it.
Fall River continues to turn out calicoes and de-
aulters with astonishing regularity.
Lo, the poor Indian, complains that the Govern
ment reservation for his tribe is only .nen.al rc-
servation.
Some gifted genius describes the Indian Summer
as " the tail of summer stckin' through the knot
hole of the past.
The remains of Maior-General Joseph Hooker
will be taken to Cincinnati for burial by the side
of those of his wife.
The comptroller of the currency says that the in
crease of national bank circulation for October
would each about 50 900, 600.
A. r. Hubbard, who lesale provision dealer of
New York accidentally shot and killed himselfnc
Mclair, n. j., while hunting.
There have been coinel TO date Al ij3, $50 silver
dollars. OF this number 1921 ,0lO are in circua.
ion, and B., 49,, $40 are in the treasury.
A fire at Mound City, ILL.,, Sunday, destroyed one
third OF the town. From sixty to eighty houses
were burned, and the loss is estimated at $4,000.
A Cincinnati man who quarreled with his wife
Sunday, tried TO frighten her by pretending to
hang himself, and succeeded in strangling him elf
10 death.
Eleven Afghan prisoners have been executed for
participation in the massacre OF the British embassy
and sixty persons have been examined since the
trials began.
Buenos Ayres despatch, dated October 10,
says the hostile armies the southern border OF
Peru were then advancing to meet each other, and
great battle was Deieyedt 10 be imminent
The largest increase in bank circulation for the
last Two months was in the New Eng land states,
amounting to s3,3JOO,O)), being nearly half a mil
lion more than the Middle states.
The sales of wool in the Boston market during
the week ending Thursday were larger than ever
before known, amounting to 5,2S0,O01 pounds. Ia
ordinary times the sales average about 1000 600
pounds per week.
AT Petersburg, Va, saturday night George
Hinton and James Young, quarrccd in a bow ling
| saloon, and Young shot Hinton dead. The trouble
| is said to have begun in a political argument They
mad been bosom friends.
Wild ducks are more numerous at Hayre de
Grace, Md, than for 10 years before. This is at
tnbuted TO the Canadian game laws, which pro-
hibit the gathering Of the eggs of the birds, Canada
beng their breeding ground.
The Pacific coast region is filing up rapidly
| shows population of 81 $50, beng an increase OF
1921 over last year. That Territory will ap.
| ply 10 Congress for admission as a state.
Toe English astronomer, Prof Richard a. Proc
tor, says that the discovery by DR.. Draper of New
York oil the presence of oxygen in the sun shown
by the bright bands in tho solar spectrum, is the
most important of ecent Astronomical discoveries
| and great achieven emf sfIr science
| Alabama has had July weather and April show
ers during October, and both there and in Georgia
it is feared that heavy rams have seriously Injured
the cotton crop. In many fields the ground i;
white with cotton, and in other cases, where the
bolls have cracked, they have filled with water
causing the cotton TO rot.
| Since Friday the principal railroad lines of ARA
| yon, Catalonia and Navarro, Spain, have been in
corrupted by gales and floods, chiefly in the vallt
of the Ebro, where the water hiss risen sever a.
| inches obove the ordinary level and destroyed the
| line between Siragossa and Catalonia fIr fifteen
miles, flooded the valley of Torlosa, carried away
houses, mills bridges, and caused damage TO the
lextent of several millions Of pesetas. In upper
Aragon the River Alcanadre invaded several
villages, cut the railway embankment and carried
away an iron bridge at Sarrena. The governors O
Malaga aud Almera report that the gale extended
over the whole of Andalnsa, and caused a very
disastrous food in the rUral districts and in the
town of Malaga. The river Almonsora flooded it,
valley and destroyed forty houses. Sixty persons
were drowned.