Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-10

Putney people arc enleavOrlas to start I c0u,so
WINDSOR COUNTY.
There is talk Of establishing signal station near
Bethel.
weathersheld claims tn, champion cider topper
who recently emptied gallon of cider at a single
draught without removing the jug from his lips, so
it is said.
Harvey Terrington, Of Norwich, gets Ito days at
hard labor in the Rutland work house for selling
rum on the Bradford camp grounds last week.
There are many cases of fever at Springfield, and
several have proved fatal.
The Chester fair, which was to have occurred
Thursday, was postponed one week because of the
rain Col. Veazey, ofRutland, delivers the address.
James Bullock of Walton, county, Ca.
while hoeing cotton found $4,000 in gold
and silver and roll of greenbacks hidden
in stump. The treasurehad been conceal
ed so long that the paper money had rot,
ted.
A college professor once tried to con-
vince Horace Greeley of the value of classic
languages. The professor said: These
languages are the conduts of the literary
treasures Of antiquity" Mr.. Greeley
replied Al like Croton water verv well,
but that doesn't follow that should eat
a yard or two of lead pipe"
WHAT WAS IN TIE BARREL?-At a
legal investigation of liquor seizure the
judge asked IN unwilling witness: "What
was in the barrel that you had?" The
reply was: Well, your honor, it was
marked whiskey on one end of the bar
rel and Pat Duffy" on the other end so
that can't say whether it was whiskey or
Pat Duffey was in the barrel, being as ]
am on my OATH
A sheep grower says: at is folly to
keep old sheep. They should be turned
off to the butcher in their prime. 1t does
not take half the amount to fatten them.
When they get old and thin, in order to
put them in the condition for slaughter,
the whole structure must be rebuilt. Four
sets of lambs are all any eve should bear;
this will bring her to five years, and this
is the age when, with n little extra care,
she will round up to full carcass. Ex-
ceptions may be made when the breed is
scarce, and the blood more desirable than
anything else"
Mr.. Murat Halstead, in conversation
with an interviewer, takes rather gloomy
view of the southern programme for the
future. He says "the confederates" pro-
pose to use the next congress rs return
ing board to elect democratic president;
that if they can retain the House their
confederate caucus will control both con-
gress and the president; and that JEFF
| Davis, as United States senator from
Mississippi, will regulate the caucus, and
be substantially ruler of the country.
Mr.. Halstead says he does not believe the
programme will be carried out.
During the war of the rebellion a
wealthy Quaker in Indiana, whose four
beautiful horses were the admiration of
the place, was asked to aid pecunarily in
the formation Of a regiment of cavalry.
He replied, " Friend, thou knowest that |
cannot give thee money or horses for war
war is wicked-but as for my four
horses, it is true that two will serve my
needs; and, friend, will say this to thee,
that my stable door is not locked, and if
see thee on one of my horses, and thy
friend ames on another. | will keep the
peace towards both" The stable door
was found unlocked, and the Quaker did
not 90 before the magistrate when two of
his fine horses were missing.
An ingenious English optical instrument
makerhas Just invented n wonderful pocket
microscope, upon which scientific writer's
are comforting much praise. The new
lens consists of three lenses, the interior
grooves of which are almost transparent;
they are lined by transparent cement,
which has: % rcfracting index correspond
ing very nearly with the glass. In this
way no light is lost by refraction from the
surfaces of the curves. The pecularities
of this remarkable invention are that it
focuses three times as far from the object
under examination as either the Stanhope
or Codrington lenses. By this means
scientists and others using the microscope
can examine obaque objects as well us
transparent ones as the light can be con-
veniently allowed to fall upon them ut any
required angle, as the definition is exceed
ingly sharp,
Mr. Frank Dixon, of Yazoo county,
Miss. told New York Times CORE
spondent, in Washington, on Wednesday,
that there was not the least doubt in his
mind that his brother was murdered by
order of the democratic committee, and
that he knew that the chairman of that
committee planned the assassination
Barksdale proved a willing tool, and he
was selected to commit the deed. Had he
refused or failed, there were forty or fifty
others who would have done it. He says,
further, that other plans of assassination
had been made, but none had proved
successful. lie had heard of men loung-
ing about the alleys of Yazoo City, and
even Disgusting themselves in women's
dress, with the purpose of killing his
brother, but they were always foiled by
accident. He expects that there will be
more killing in Yazoo before the election
is over. Had he remained there he GER
tainly would have been killed. Flanagan
and colored man who had been an indie
had been compelled to leave, the latter
does not believe that Barksdale will be
indicted by the grand jury. If the indie
pendent ticket is given u fair chance, he
says, it will be elected, as over two-thirds
of the voters of the county are negroes,
who will vote solidly for the Independent
candidates.
Ice WATER.-A prominent western
paper has recently published series of
articles pointing out the evil effects of ice
water and condemning its use in the
strongest terms. In one of its articles it
says:
A man who, in IL state of perspiration,
with tho sweat oozing from every pore in
his skin, should suddenly strip off his |
clothing and shut himself up in refriger-
ator, would be set down in public estima-
ton as q natural fool, who defeJ Provi-
dence itself 10 save him from DEATH Such
thing actually happened in this city
few years ago, and the man was taken off
of his ice box dead ms II herring and stiff
as pikestaff.
Ice water arrests digestion if it does
not absolutely drive out all animal heat,
and it is not resumed until the water is |
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